Cathy O'Neil (Catherine "Cathy" Helen O'Neil) Quotes

That's what we do when we work in Silicon Valley tech startups: We think about who's going to benefit from this. That's almost the only thing we think about.

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• Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • People
  • Political
  • Revolution

• There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Giving
  • Focus
  • Generosity

• The Democratic Party has formed a perfect union with the mainstream media to scare Republicans, to say that they're gonna be called racists or sexists or homophobic if they reach out to minorities.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Perfect
  • Party
  • Republican

• My friend Adele describes fundamentalism as holding so tightly to your beliefs that your fingernails leave imprints on the palm of your hand... I think she's right. I was a fundamentalist not because of the beliefs I held but because of how I held them: with a death grip. It would take God himself to finally pry them out of my hands. (p.17-18)

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • God
  • Thinking
  • She

• We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Violence
  • Rights
  • Dignity

• In the wealthiest nation on Earth – no illness or accident should lead to any family’s financial ruin.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Family
  • Earth
  • Health

• Although violence and the use of force may appear powerful and decisive, their benefits are short-lived. Violence can never bring a lasting and long term resolution to any problem, because it is unpredictable and for every problem it seems to solve, others are created. On the other hand, truth remains constant and will ultimately prevail.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Long
  • May
  • Truth

• Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a few hours' relaxation or to while away the tedium of a journey.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Experience
  • Heaven
  • Journey

• Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.

  

  Fritz Perls
  • Humans
  • Functioning
  • Distort

• I was blessed with speed and a good punch. Everybody thinks I'm the hardest puncher ever. But I just think I was really fast, and my punches got to the target faster. That's what made my knockouts always seem spectacular.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Blessed
  • Punch
  • Knockouts

• Seeking happiness apart from a right relationship God is like trying to turn on a light that's unplugged.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • God
  • Relationship
  • Happiness

• We all have our different interests and needs, and we're trying to maintain a balance between the health of the creek and the people who depend upon it for water.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Health
  • Balance
  • Creek

• The public hungers to see talented young people kill themselves.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Kill
  • Talanted
  • Hungers

• Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Character
  • Genes

• Forty-years-old these days is the beginning of people's lives. I've found myself, I'm confident, I'm mature, I've been through some stuff, I'm ready to write my book.

  

  Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Mature

• My aunt put my cousins into a childrens modelling agency, then my mum did it with us. Me and my sister got a few TV adverts, which was good pocket money. A director saw photos of me and asked me to do a short film.

  

  Sullivan Stapleton
  • Film
  • Directors
  • Aunt

• Talking about muscles. They're like pets basically. They're not worth it. You have to feed them all the time and take care of them, and if you don't, they just go away. They run away.

  

  Ryan Gosling
  • Running
  • Care
  • Talking

• That's what we do when we work in Silicon Valley tech startups: We think about who's going to benefit from this. That's almost the only thing we think about.

  

  Cathy O'Neil
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