Jeffrey

“From claims of Twitter's racist trolling that drives people from its platform to charges that Airbnb's owners openly discriminate against African Americans who rent their homes to racial profiling at Apples stores in Australia and Snapchat's racist filters, there is no shortage of projects to take on in sophisticated ways by people far more qualified than untrained computer engineers, whom, through no fault of their own, are underexposed to critical thinking and learning about history and culture afforded by the social sciences and humanities in most colleges nationwide. The lack of a diverse and critically minded workforce on issues of race and gender in Silicon Valley impacts its intellectual output.”
― Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

“Just take each step you’re able to manage, persevere little by little, and build it up that way.”
― Sugaru Miaki, Three Days of Happiness

“If imagination is not set to the task of building a creative life, it busies itself with weaving a web of inner fears and doubts, blame and excuse. —LAURENCE G. BOLDT”
― Wil Wheaton, Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir

“The future wasn’t set in stone. Maybe something good would happen. Perhaps I would experience something that made me glad I kept living. The chances weren’t zero. And that meant I couldn’t yet give in to the allure of death.”
― Sugaru Miaki, Three Days of Happiness