CITATION PLEASE

Who said what this week

“The algorithm doesn’t see the difference between a piece of art and a bad ad.”

Pascale Chasse, spokesperson for the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, after its online ad showing an abstract Picasso nude was blocked by Facebook; the posts were eventually accepted

“You combine drought and heat, you get record wildfires. It’s not rocket science.”

Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, on causes of the largest wildfire in California’s history

“I suspect that there was a lack of sensitivity to the rules of modern society, in which women should not be treated differently because of their gender.”

Tetsuo Yukioka, managing director of a Tokyo medical school that admitted it altered entrance exam scores for years to limit the number of female students

“It’s better that the oil come out in a controlled manner than, you know, some storm in June and have it on the shoreline.”

Carolyn Parsons, who has been lobbying to have officials extract leaking bulk oil from a shipwreck off Newfoundland’s Notre Dame Bay; the cleanup began this week

“Hero and hubby in the same day.”

Cindy Edwards, after her new husband Zac, a former lifeguard, rescued a struggling swimmer while they were taking wedding photos on a beach in Alabama

“I saw death in the face and I said: This is not your time yet, this is the time for life.”

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, describing drone explosions as an opposition assassination attempt against him