Peter Norvig Quotes
- Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.
- Python has been an important part of Google since the beginning, and remains so as the system grows and evolves. Today dozens of Google engineers…
- All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them.
- We dont have better algorithms, we just have more data
- When I was in school, working as a team was called cheating.
- Simple models and a lot of data trump more elaborate models based on less data.
- Using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table.
- The people who hate SICP are the ones who just want to know how to drive their car on the highway, just like everyone else.
- PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings. But using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table: You can do very bad things…
- I think test-driven design is great. But you can test all you want and if you don’t know how to approach the problem, you’re not…
- More data beats clever algorithms, but better data beats more data.