“I had white friends, black friends. I was easy going. The occasional comment, I just chose not to hear it.”— Mo Farah, bigissue.com
“That Wheaton couldn’t make room for a scholar like Hawkins raises questions about what real diversity might look like in a setting where a certain uniformity of belief is essential.”— Ruth Graham, nytimes.com
“If there’s any message to my work, it is ultimately that it’s OK to be different, that it’s good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.”— Johnny Depp, books.google.dk
“If all of your friends look and think like you, then you need a new group of friends.”— Condoleezza Rice, thoughtcatalog.com
“while acknowledging we are not alone, we are but one of many places and people.”— James Stack, amazon.com
“The gap between what’s preached and practiced at tech companies creates disillusionment.”— Bo Ren, medium.com
“And beyond that — this election will say something about who we are as a people. Donald Trump believes in the worst of us. He thinks we’re fearful, not confident. That we favor division, not unity; walls, not bridges; and yesterday, not tomorrow. He thinks the only way forward is to go back to a pas…”— Hillary Clinton, medium.com
“Facebook denies censoring Twitter in Trending topic headlines, or what we call 'descriptions', and the guidelines appear to support this. However, I was specifically trained to avoid using Twitter. Several times curators were penalized for using Twitter in descriptions.”— Anonymous, theguardian.com
“Instead of creating a campaign solely geared to inspiring young girls to get into computer science, the nonprofit wanted to show how ridiculous it is to assume that girls have some sort of gender-specific obstacles to being developers.”— Kristina Monllos, Girls Who Code, adweek.com
“So if we're serious about building a better world through technology and using it to elevate everyone into the modern era, we'll need committed leaders at the top—but not just that. A greater share of the industry's workforce can and should take more personal initiative. The pockets of deep, bold co…”— Ash Huang, fastcompany.com
“Building products with "social" and "community" features may not actually serve a larger purpose that isn't undermined by the online hate speech they enable—which often victimizes some users more than others.”— Ash Huang, fastcompany.com
“The top search results for "avatar" on Dribbble are overwhelmingly white, male, and bearded. For the rest of us, it feels like we live in a tech boy-king’s world.”— Ash Huang, fastcompany.com
“What happened to the days when tech companies were hiring good engineers. Nowadays this political correctness is going way way way over the top of common sense.”— Unknown, menofdesignernews.tumblr.com
“Perspectival seeing is the only kind of seeing there is, perspectival 'knowing' the only kind of 'knowing'; and the more feelings about a matter which we allow to come to expression, the more eyes, different eyes through which we are able to view this same matter, the more complete our 'conception'…”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“As the experiment was designed, the groups consisted of 'liberal' and 'conservative' members — the former from Boulder, the latter from Colorado Springs. It is widely known that Boulder tends to be liberal and that Colorado Springs tends to be conservative. The groups were screened to ensure that th…”— Cass R. Sunstein, amazon.com