Algorithms Quotes · Page 2

Algorithms work when someone is doing a daily vlog or something, not when it's someone's life's work.

— Declan McKenna

I really wanted to talk to her. I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit.

— Peter Watts

I like to think our brains are a bit like algorithms. Whatever you give it and feed it, you get out the…

— Declan McKenna

Mathematics my foot! Algorithms are mathematics too, and often more interesting and definitely more useful.

— Doron Zeilberger

You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.

— John Green

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

— Donald Knuth

“The crucial problem isn’t creating new jobs. The crucial problem is creating new jobs that humans perform better than algorithms”

— Yuval Noah Harari

We have this imbalance where the people who are making algorithms aren't talking to the people who are using them. And the…

— Hannah Fry

“An algorithm is a methodical set of steps that can be used to make calculations, resolve problems and reach decisions. An algorithm…

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

— 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…

— Andrew Ng

In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with…

— Michael Shermer

Good SEO work only gets better over time. It's only search engine tricks that need to keep changing when the ranking algorithms…

— Jill Whalen

We have a lot of argument about laws but none of it solves the problem. Let's examine what happened, why did we…

— Carly Fiorina

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

— Alexander Stepanov

Many [business] people focus on what is static, black and white. Yet great algorithms can be rewritten. A business process can be…

— Gurbaksh Chahal

I'm not anti conceptual art. I don't think painting must be revived, exactly. Art reflects life, and our lives are full of…

— Jenny Saville

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

— Cathy O'Neil

Genetic algorithms (GAs) are defined as search procedures based on the mechanics of natural selection and genetics, and we think we know…

— Anonymous

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

— Jack Edmonds

Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players.…

— Douglas Rushkoff

The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of…

— John von Neumann

I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other…

— Donald Knuth

Bitcoin is not “unregulated”. It is regulated by algorithm instead of being regulated by government bureaucracies. Un-corrupted.

— Andreas Antonopoulos

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

— Catherynne M. Valente

All around us, algorithms provide a kind of convenient source of authority: an easy way to delegate responsibility, a short cut we…

— Hannah Fry

Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't…

— Geoff Mulgan

In popular books and articles, information technology writer Carr has worried over the ways that algorithms like those employed by Google are…

— Nicholas G. Carr

Once you succeed in writing the programs for [these] complicated algorithms, they usually run extremely fast. The computer doesn't need to understand…

— Robert Tarjan

I have a simple algorithm, which is, wherever you see paid researchers instead of grad students, that's not where you want to…

— Larry Page

“Effective algorithms make assumptions, show a bias toward a simple solutions, trade off the costs of error against the cost of delay,…

— Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths

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

— Damian Mingle

The neural network is this kind of technology that is not an algorithm, it is a network that has weights on it,…

— Howard Rheingold

The invisible pieces of code that form the gears and cogs of the modern machine age, algorithms have given the world everything…

— Hannah Fry

In deep learning, the algorithms we use now are versions of the algorithms we were developing in the 1980s, the 1990s. People…

— Geoffrey Hinton

We at Google have made tremendous advances in understanding language. Our knowledge graph has been fundamental to that. The new algorithm that…

— Amit Singhal

“We will start by sketching the recursive algorithm and then add details to get to a full description of the algorithm. Footnote…

— Sariel Har-Peled

“the algorithms might actually come to own businesses instead of just managing them, and humans could end up working for and paying…

— GBF Summary

I described to my patent lawyer our new algorithm-that I was hoping to patent- about detecting clustering, that involved three probabilities α…

— Jennifer Tour Chayes

We don't let a car company just throw out a car and start driving it around without checking that the wheels are…

— Cathy O'Neil