Hannah Fry If we permit flawed machines to make life-changing decisions on our behalf – by allowing them to pinpoint a murder suspect, to diagnose a condition or take over the wheel of a car – we have to think carefully about what happens when things go wrong. – Hannah Fry Allowing Quotes Behalf Quotes Car Quotes Carefully Quotes Condition Quotes Decisions Quotes Diagnose Quotes Flawed Quotes Lifechanging Quotes Machines Quotes Murder Quotes Permit Quotes Pinpoint Quotes Suspect Quotes Wheel Quotes Wrong Quotes Because, ultimately, we can’t just think of algorithms in isolation. We have to think of the failings of the people who design them – and the danger to those they are supposedly designed to serve. All around us, algorithms provide a kind of convenient source of authority: an easy way to delegate responsibility, a short cut we take without thinking.
Frank Auerbach Real style is not having a program – it’s how one behaves in a crisis. – Frank Auerbach
Bridget Fonda I can be pretty nasty. Not ‘mean’ nasty, but nasty by your parents’ standards. But not by my parents’ standards, because my parents were nasty for their day. – Bridget Fonda
Rahm Emanuel I don’t want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn’t pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country. – Rahm Emanuel
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