Christian Rudder Quotes
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You ask an algorithm “What aren’t black women talking about” and it tells you “tanning,” you know you did something right.
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When you see people in middle management dickering with their Fitbits in the elevator, you know the Quantified Self movement is here to stay.
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Not to pick a fight with any post-structuralist critics or anything like that, but a certain frame of mind can only tolerate that kind of academic stuff for [so long].
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Women want men to age with them. And men always head toward youth.
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It even has a name. It’s called WEIRD research: white, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic. And most published social research papers are WEIRD.
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The change Twitter has wrought on language itself is nothing compared with the change it is bringing to the study of language.
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For anything to be made whole, the first step is to know what’s missing.
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Computers, however, have nothing better to do; keeping track is their only job. They don't lose the scrapbook, or travel, or get drunk, or grow senile, or even blink. They just sit there and remember.
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If we want to pick the point where a man’s sexual appeal has reached its limit, it’s there: forty.
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Prejudice unchallenged is prejudice perpetuated.
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Twitter actually may be improving its users’ writing, as it forces them to wring meaning from fewer letters - it embodies William Strunk’s famous dictum, Omit needless words, at the keystroke level.