When I think about whether I want to take a job, I don't just think about whether it's technically interesting, although I do consider that. I also consider the question of whether it's good for the world.

For whatever reason, I have never separated the technical from the ethical.

The most important goal I had in mind was to convince people to stop blindly trusting algorithms and assuming that they are inherently fair and objective.

The disconnect I was experiencing was that people hated Wall Street, but they loved tech.

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

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 can't just throw something out there and assume it works just because it has math in it.