“A human is not a device that reliably reports a gold standard judgment of relevance of a document to a query.” — Hinrich Schütze Copy Share Image
“What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don’t need to make smart decisions—if they can… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Quite… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“In principle, more analytic power can be achieved by varying multiple things at once in an uncorrelated (random) way, and doing standard… — Christopher D. Manning Copy Share Image
“Here the query A320 returns algorithmic search results about the Airbus aircraft, together with advertisements for various non-aircraft goods numbered A320 that… — Hinrich Schütze Copy Share Image
“I shall not vote for Sen. Obama and it will not be because he—like me and like all of us—carries African genes.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when I was sitting in the Crimson Cabaret on a rainy night, I thought of myself as occupying a waiting room… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Because of the "city upon a hill" sound bite, " A Model of Christian Charity " is one of the formative documents… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“Indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient witnesses, hopeless on health care, and flippant and fast… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Clinton, speaking to a black church audience on Martin Luther King Day last year, did describe President George W. Bush as… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The key utility measure is user happiness. Speed of response and the size of the index are factors in user happiness. It… — Christopher D. Manning Copy Share Image
“One also hears a great deal about how this awful joint tenure of the executive mansion was a good thing in that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“When I was in London in 2008, I spent a couple hours hanging out at a pub with a couple of blokes… — Robert Stacy McCain Copy Share Image
“During the Senate debate on the intervention in Iraq, Sen. Clinton made considerable use of her background and 'experience' to argue that,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“After eighteen long months covering this dreary business, the whole campaign appears in my mind’s eye as one long, protracted scratch-fight over… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“Thus, an index built for vector space retrieval cannot, in general, be used for phrase queries. Moreover, there is no way of… — Prabhakar Raghavan Copy Share Image
“I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“One might come up with other and kinder distinctions (I shall not be doing so) but the plain fact about the senator… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Madeleine Albright has said that there is 'a special place in hell for women who don't help each other.' What are the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Not to dampen any parade, but if one asks if there is a single thing about Mr. Obama's Senate record, or state… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The simple measure of sanity in housing prices, Zelman argued, was the ratio of median home price to income. Historically, in the… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“Yet isn't it all—all of it, every single episode and detail of the Clinton saga—exactly like that? And isn't some of it… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Drilling without thinking has of course been Republican party policy since May 2008. With gas prices soaring to unprecedented heights, that's when… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“Seeing the name Hillary in a headline last week—a headline about a life that had involved real achievement—I felt a mouse stirring… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“What do you have to forget or overlook in order to desire that this dysfunctional clan once more occupies the White House… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
