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

An insurance company might say, "Tell us more about yourself so your premiums can go down." When they say that, they're addressing the winners, not the losers.

We've learned our lesson with finance because they made a huge goddamn explosion that almost shut down the world. But the thing I realized is that there might never be an explosion on the scale of the financial crisis happening with big data.

I think big data companies only like good news. So I think they're just hoping that they don't get sued, essentially.

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

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

There are lots of different ways that algorithms can go wrong, and what we have now is a system in which we assume because it's shiny new technology with a mathematical aura that it's perfect and it doesn't require further vetting. Of course, we never have that assumption with other kinds of technology.