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

Occupy provided me a lens through which to see systemic discrimination.

Every system using data separates humanity into winners and 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.

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 know how models are built, because I build them myself, so I know that I'm embedding my values into every single algorithm I create and I am projecting my agenda onto those algorithms.

People are starting to be very skeptical of the Facebook algorithm and all kinds of data surveillance.