Once you succeed in writing the programs for [these]…

“Algorithm’ is arguably the single most important concept in our world. If we want to understand our life and our future, we should make…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it… If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs,…

— Tony Hoare

“Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it. Our applications are complex because we are ambitious to use our computers in ever…

— C.A.R. Hoare

“Lots of very funny code is written because people don’t take the time to understand the algorithm.”

— Robert C. Martin

The development of an organism ... may be considered as the execution of a 'developmental program' present in the fertilized egg. ... A central…

— Aristid Lindenmayer

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

— Tim Wu

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

“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

[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

“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

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

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

— Damian Mingle