Debera Johnson:

Say I'm a big brand. I'm going to implant technology into my garment to track where you are in time and space, and understand who you're talking with and what they are wearing, so I can understand behaviors of my clients better. That is something the brands would love to do.

John Darnielle:

I know all the people I follow on Tumblr and all the people who follow me are united in one thing and one thing only: their ravenous enthusiasm for brands. "I came for the sense of a new community, one with a keen feel for the visual but with a passion for language, too," they say, "but it's the brands that keep me here. Sweet Christ I love brands. Let the mountains collapse into dust and the oceans all boil, but give me brands," they cry in the night. I personally remember, as a child, pleading with my parents to let me interface with my favorite brands. And interface we did. With the brands. The glorious, glorious brands.

John Brockman:

It's a culture. Call it the algorithmic culture.

Feilix Salmon:

For better or worse, the computers are now in control.

The Instapaper Team:

The Weekly is an algorithmically generated newsletter based on the most popular articles and highlights saved by Instapaper users, and unfortunately we didn't build the algorithm to filter profanity in any way.

Scott Shane, in 2005:

The Open Source Center will study obscure sources like T-shirt slogans in countries of interest.

Solid Gold Bomb, in 2013:

Although we did not in any way deliberately create the offensive t-shirts in question and it was the result of a scripted programming process that was compiled by only one member of our staff, we accept the responsibility of the error and are doing our best to correct the issues at hand. We're sorry for the ill feeling this has caused! We're doing our best here to fix the problem.