Google is so big you have no idea what a given person does.

We don't let a car company just throw out a car and start driving it around without checking that the wheels are fastened on. We know that would result in death; but for some reason we have no hesitation at throwing out some algorithms untested and unmonitored even when they're making very important life-and-death decisions.

I think what's happened is that the general public has become much more aware of the destructive power of Wall Street.

You'll never be able to really measure anything, right? Including teachers.

Most people don't have any association in their minds with what they do and with ethics. They think they somehow moved past the questions of morality or values or ethics, and that's something that I've never imagined to be true.

The NSA buys data from private companies, so the private companies are the source of all this stuff.

There's less of a connection for a lot of people between the technical decisions we make and the ethical ramifications we are responsible for.