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

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

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

I think there's inherently an issue that models will literally never be able to handle, which is that when somebody comes along with a new way of doing something that's really excellent, the models will not recognize it. They only know how to recognize excellence when they can measure it somehow.

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

I wanted to prevent people from giving them too much power. I see that as a pattern. I wanted that to come to an end as soon as possible.

People felt like they were friends with Google, and they believed in the "Do No Evil" thing that Google said. They trusted Google more than they trusted the government, and I never understood that.