“I mainly play traditional music, which by definition is music that you've heard someone else doing.” Quote by John Spiers
“Traditional folk music is about survival of the fittest song just like evolution is about survival of the fittest organism and generally the more times a song has been passed down the generations the more brilliant and concise it becomes as every link in that chain can add something good or remove something unnecessary.” Has BeensSongGenerationsEvolutionSurvivalMusic IsAddFolksBrilliantTraditionalChainsRemoveMore TimeLinksUnnecessaryOrganismsFolk MusicSurvival Of The FittestConcise Author:John Spiers
“Jon Hamm is incredibly good at playing people who have secrets and are hiding aspects of their personality, and obviously Don Draper had a lot of that.” PeopleSecretPersonalityAspectHiding Author:Greg Mottola
“We didn't want to make it a parody of Don Draper[in Keeping Up With the Joneses] but we did arrive on this idea that there's a side of Jon Hamm that opens up that would like him to stop living as a professional liar.” WantIdeasSidesLiarsParody Author:Greg Mottola
“[Keeping Up with the Joneses] is not one of those movies where people get shot and fall down and there's no reality of what would happen if you got shot and knocked over a motorcycle. It's meant to be a slight comedy in that sense.” PeopleIfsRealityHappensFallComedyShotsDown AndMeant To BeFalling DownMotorcycle Author:Greg Mottola
“I feel like I'm long overdue for a "one for me" movie, so I've got two low-budget indy personal things I'm working on.” FeelsLongTwoLowsBudgetsPersonal ThingsOverdueOne For Me Author:Greg Mottola
“I've been co-writing a TV thing with Bryan Cranston, which we are going to find out soon if it's moving forward or not which is for Amazon.” IfsWritingMovingTvsMoving ForwardAmazonBryan Author:Greg Mottola
“The most important goal I had in mind was to convince people to stop blindly trusting algorithms and assuming that they are inherently fair and objective.” PeopleMindImportantGoalFairsAssumingObjectivesConvinceAlgorithms Author:Cathy O'Neil
“I wanted to prevent people from giving them too much power. I see that as a pattern. I wanted that to come to an end as soon as possible.” PeopleGivingEndsWantedToo MuchPatternsToo Much Power Author:Cathy O'Neil
“I would argue that one of the major problems with our blind trust in algorithms is that we can propagate discriminatory patterns without acknowledging any kind of intent.” KindProblemMajorsBlindPatternsArguingAlgorithmsMajor ProblemsBlind Trust Author:Cathy O'Neil