Cathy O'Neil Quotes

I think with every successful consumer Internet business, there will be lawyers that are interested in going after your company, especially when they think that there's a financial incentive.

Evil news rides post, while good news baits.

Evil news fly faster still than good.

No good news, which means the same as bad news.

I'm not entangled in a bunch of lawsuits and a web that I can't get out of. I can hold my head up... a happily married man who has his head in order. There isn't a bunch of scandal in my life.

When you get famous, you become a target for things, like lawsuits. People will take advantage of your fame.

Some people do believe that any publicity is good publicly, but I don't. I would never want to be in news for rumours.

AIs trained on open data are more likely to be neutral and trustworthy instead of biased by the interests of the corporation who created and trained them.

When you're working on a Marvel movie, their legal department do not play.

I mean, comics fear sue - you know, lawsuits and stuff like that, just because they don't like to do paperwork.

Ill news are swallow-winged, but what is good walks on crutches.

I don't think he would have had any trouble answering Justice Sonia Sotomayor's excellent challenge in a case involving GPS surveillance. She said we need an alternative to this whole way of thinking about the privacy now which says that when you give data to a third party, you have no expectations of privacy. And [Louis] Brandeis would have said nonsense, of course you have expectations of privacy because it's intellectual privacy that has to be protected. That's my attempt to channel him on some of those privacy questions.

By construction, the world of big data is siloed and segmented and segregated so that successful people, like myself - technologists, well-educated white people, for the most part - benefit from big data, and it's the people on the other side of the economic spectrum, especially people of color, who suffer from it. They suffer from it individually, at different times, at different moments. They never get a clear explanation of what actually happened to them because all these scores are secret and sometimes they don't even know they're being scored.

Bad news travels fast. Good news takes the scenic route.

Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.

If you have to release bad news to the public, it would help if you are not ugly.

Our business is not based on having information about you. You’re not our product. Our product are these, and this watch, and Macs and so forth. And so we run a very different company. I think everyone has to ask, how do companies make their money? Follow the money. And if they’re making money mainly by collecting gobs of personal data, I think you have a right to be worried.

Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.

I've gotten to the point I won't even watch the 11 o'clock news. You just walk away from it thinking how bad everything is.

We live in a litigious society, and that's the way it is. Better safe than sorry.

When there is good news, and it is news , we do report it, but usually news is a record of human failure. Those wanting to celebrate human accomplishment are, as someone said, advised to go to the sports section.

The gospel is good news to those who know they don't measure up. It's offensive to those who think they do.

The media is in the business of finding exceptions to everyday life. Bad things are still the exception. That's good, because once bad things stop being news, we really are in trouble. If people forget that bad is the exception, they think they live in a horrible world. There is so much that works and is right and friendly and warm. But we take that for granted.

Of those hundreds of lawsuits [for Donald Trump], we're told 30 are significant. There's pressure for him to settle that suit before he goes into the office.

Showed good business judgment, knowing that these continued lawsuits would be the untimely death of the gun industry.