New Waves Quotes

“Now I was getting angry. But not at the guy on the subway. At Jill. How did she think it was her place to tell me how to feel about being called a chink? I didn’t like it. But I also wasn’t going to let it ruin my day by making a big deal out of it.”
― Kevin Nguyen, New Waves

“It seemed like most of the internet was built by people either because they could or because they were bored.”
― Kevin Nguyen, New Waves

“Look, even with a team of a hundred, or a thousand, moderators, or if Emil’s algorithm actually worked with 99.9 percent accuracy, we still wouldn’t be able to catch everything. And every time something slips through the cracks, we’re going to get called out on it, no matter how hard we try. People are always going to find new ways to be terrible and cruel.”
― Kevin Nguyen, New Waves

“I thought back on this conversation often that year as I watched the high-minded optimism of Brandon slowly erode as investor pressure mounted. If technology represented the landscape that people actually traversed in life, it was one that could be drastically shaped and reshaped by money—advertisers, investors, whoever had it. Even I knew that.”
― Kevin Nguyen, New Waves

“Margo stopped and looked up at the building. “I read that its elevators used to be water-powered.” She turned to me and I noticed a touch of bright orange tikka masala on her lip. “The building was always flooding.” As usual, she identified something by its biggest problem.”
― Kevin Nguyen, New Waves

“Perhaps that was the greatest fiction of TV, that hearts could be won over with enough hard work, that romance followed the same ideals as capitalism.”
― Kevin Nguyen, New Waves

“I trusted Margo, but Margo also made a lot of decisions while drunk.”
― Kevin Nguyen, New Waves

“PEOPLE SOMETIMES CALL THE subway system the arteries of New York, but that would presume the city had a heart.”
― Kevin Nguyen, New Waves