"One way to know what kind of ethnographer you are is to think about how you feel when you see the police approaching."

"[Foucault] has something to say to almost every field in the arts, humanities, and social sciences."

"If somebody dies in the game because of your actions, in a way, there is a sense of responsibility...even if it's just in fictional form."

"You have to take into account the history of race and surveillance when you're talking about any new predictive policing technology...Every time we have seen an innovation of surveillance, we've turned it on communities of color and poor people first."

"We can't dismiss the woman on the platform playing Candy Crush Saga as simply a dupe of capitalism."

"This is not just a trend but one with significant implications for how law is carried out, how law is constructed. And it's going to continue with increases of computing power and the gathering of big data."

"They were training it according to US Hollywood movies. So [the bot] was talking not according to how people talk but how Hollywood script writers believe people talk."

"Aphorisms are interesting concepts because they don't arrive via an argument. You don't get syllogistically to an aphorism. An aphorism simply, but not merely, feels true. It feels right, which I think is often how poems work as well."

"So much of how we see artists as interacting with each other--and their work as interacting with each other--comes from the art historian as opposed to from the work itself."

"Autonomous vehicles are programmed whenever a human is on the road to stop or swerve...Already we have reports of where the Google car (the Waymo car, I guess I should say now), people have already figured this out and are beginning to play chicken with it...All of these unintended consequences have to be taken into account."