There might never be that moment when everyone says, "Oh my God, big data is awful."

It's a standard thing you hear from startup people - that their product is somehow improving the world. And if you follow the reasoning, you will get somewhere, and I'll tell you where you get: You'll get to the description of what happens to the winners under the system that they're building.

There might never be that moment when everyone says, "Oh my God, big data is awful."

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 training one receives when one becomes a technician, like a data scientist - we get trained in mathematics or computer science or statistics - is entirely separated from a discussion of ethics.

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