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In 1981, the AI researcher and Yale University professor Drew McDermott called this practice of naming computational phenomena with words denoting human characteristics and capabilities wishful mnemonics. He suggested that technologists' use of such words reflected a deep-seated desire for the computational objects in question to magically assume the human-like qualities being described.

— Rage Inside the Machine by Robert Elliott Smith (Page 208 - 209)

Algorithms that divide complex human capabilities into simplified features are not only a catalyst for dehumanization, they are the mechanism that causes it. To overcome this, we need to think again about Al's role in the economy and society from the point of view of the welfare of humanity rather than the overriding efficiency of the machine.

— Rage Inside the Machine by Robert Elliott Smith (Page 149)

Instead of the proletariat we now have the precariat: a class of people with insecure jobs afraid to ask for pay rises or improved working conditions. And, just like the Luddites before them, workers insist that they are not against innovation, technology or flexibility, they just want some basic rights and security.

— Rage Inside the Machine by Robert Elliott Smith (Page 144)

Making good judgments and acting wisely when one has complete data, facts, and information is not leadership. It's not even management. It's bookkeeping.

— One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization by Peter Senge, Dee W. Hock, Dee Hock (Page 199)

The first and paramount responsibility of anyone who purports to manage is to manage self -- one's own integrity, character, ethics, knowledge, wisdom, temperament, words, and acts. It is a never-ending, difficult, oft-shunned task. The reason is not complicated. It is ignored precisely because it is incredibly more difficult than prescribing and controlling the behavior of others.

— One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization by Peter Senge, Dee W. Hock, Dee Hock (Page 48)

In industrial age organizations, purpose slowly erodes into process. Procedure takes precedence over product. The doing of the doing is why nothing gets done.

— One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization by Peter Senge, Dee W. Hock, Dee Hock (Page 36)

Wikipédia est un OVNI, un objet volatile numérique illimité, qui ne vit que de dons, et est pourtant au centre de la galaxie Internet.

— Petite Philosophie des algorithmes sournois by Luc de Brabandere (Page 60)

We're bugs struggling in the river, brightly visible to the trout below.

— Bird by bird by Anne Lamott (Page 168)