“If you're on Facebook and you're trying to reach out, you really have ...” — Zeynep Tufekci Quote

“If you're on Facebook and you're trying to reach out, you really have to figure out how to feed and please its algorithm. If you don't, people aren't going to see your stuff because the algorithm is not going to show it to them.”

“Humans exist in social groups and rely on social signals to make the group work - signals that are symbolic, and appear without teeth, but in essence are among the most powerful dynamics of a human society.”

“Modern shortages of 'labor' are almost always a shortage of willingness to pay well, or a desire to avoid hiring the 'wrong' kind of people.”

“If anything, social media is a counterweight to the ongoing devaluation of human lives.”

“I'm all for biking and bikeable cities.”

“In a time of information avalanche, focusing on what is true and important can be a revolutionary act.”

“Why somebody feels one way about one person or the other, there's no way to solve that through an algorithm or any kind of formula. It just happens.”

“In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.”

“Once upon a time, if you were going to get a loan from me, I would have had to look at your file, and I would have to make a decision about whether youre going to get a loan. Maybe we would meet and talk about it. There would be some level of human involvement and human interaction. Now, a lot of this is determined by an algorithm.”

“We're pieces of the puzzle. If I fit in a certain algorithm, then it'll be time for me to go. It's tough as a baseball player, it really is, not knowing much, but you just have to play.”

“YouTube's algorithm doesn't know what's going on in the world.”