Tomas Pena

“If we have the data, let’s look at the data. If all we have are opinions, let’s just go with mine.”
― Mike Walsh, The Algorithmic Leader: How to Be Smart When Machines Are Smarter Than You

“Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.”
― Mike Walsh, The Algorithmic Leader: How to Be Smart When Machines Are Smarter Than You

“Dataism is most firmly entrenched in its two mother disciplines: computer science and biology. Of the two biology is the more important. It was biology’s embrace of Dataism that turned a limited breakthrough in computer science into a world-shattering cataclysm that may completely transform the very nature of life. You may not agree with the idea that organisms are algorithms, and that giraffes, tomatoes and human beings are just different methods for processing data. But you should know that this is current scientific dogma, and it is changing our world beyond recognition.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

“Alexander said that it was preferable to have an army of sheep led by a lion than an army of lions led by a sheep.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life