Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.

I don't like the algorithms that don't do what they claim they do.

— Hannah Fry

If you're deceiving people through algorithms, you don't get some type of free pass because you're saying, 'Oh, the machine did it.'

— Lina Khan

Antivirus systems need to strike a balance between detecting all possible attacks without causing any false alarms. And while we try to improve on…

— Mikko Hypponen

The search for perfection begins with detecting imperfection

— Nateman

“Language skill requires a bit of knowledge about how we answer the question: How do you know that Blumph is true? Plus a smidgen…

— Mary B. Thompson

[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day.

— Donald Knuth

Object-oriented programming aficionados think that everything is an object… this [isn't] so. There are things that are objects. Things that have state and change…

— Alexander Stepanov

I don't think anybody's ever notified that they were sentenced to an extra two years because their recidivism score had been high, or notified…

— Cathy O'Neil

“Data Scientists should recall innovation often times is not providing fancy algorithms, but rather value to the customer.”

— Damian Mingle

No one knows what the right algorithm is, but it gives us hope that if we can discover some crude approximation of whatever this…

— Andrew Ng

The classes of problems which are respectively known and not known to have good algorithms are of great theoretical interest. [...] I conjecture that…

— Jack Edmonds

Google has - at least at this point - maintained the line where it keeps organic results separate from the advertisements. But over time…

— Tim Wu

“no matter how much tech companies talk about algorithms like they’re nothing but advanced math, they always reflect the values of their creators:”

— Sara Wachter-Boettcher

“He considers it for a moment and spits out the seeds, which sprout, quickly, into tiny junkblossoms sizzling with recursive algorithms. The algorithms wriggle…

— Catherynne M. Valente

With recidivism algorithms, for example, I worry about racist outcomes. With personality tests [for hiring], I worry about filtering out people with mental health…

— Cathy O'Neil