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Book cover for Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society
For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way God’s universe is made; this is the way it is structured.
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Weike Wang
“In spoken Chinese, everything is gender neutral. There is no she or he. The more I think about this now, the more I like this about the language. Man or woman? Does it matter? A person.”
Weike Wang, Chemistry

Ellen Ullman
“I’ve managed to stay in a perpetual state of learning only by maintaining what I think of as a posture of ignorant humility. This humility is as mandatory as arrogance… There is only one way to deal with this humiliation: bow you head, let go of the idea that you know anything, and ask politely of this new machine “How do you wish to be operated?” If you accept your ignorance, once you really admit to yourself that everything you know is now useles, the new machine will be good to you and tell you: here is how to operate me.”
Ellen Ullman, Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents

Leslie Valiant
“machine learning is the general field that studies how complex mechanisms can be created without a designer.”
Leslie Valiant, Probably Approximately Correct: Nature's Algorithms for Learning and Prospering in a Complex World

Ta-Nehisi Coates
“The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me, the right to declare your own curiosities and follow them through all manner of books. I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free. Slowly, I was discovering myself.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Daniel Kahneman
“For example, students of policy have noted that the availability heuristic helps explain why some issues are highly salient in the public’s mind while others are neglected. People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory—and this is largely determined by the extent of coverage in the media.”
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

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