Algorithms Quote by Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths

“In algorithms, as in life, persistence usually pays off.”

— Steven S. Skiena

Once you see the problems that algorithms can introduce, people can be quick to want to throw them away altogether and think the situation…

— Hannah Fry

“One of the implicit principles of computer science, as odd as it may sound, is that computation is bad: the underlying directive of any…

— Brian Christian

There are lots of different ways that algorithms can go wrong, and what we have now is a system in which we assume because…

— Cathy O'Neil

All around us, algorithms provide a kind of convenient source of authority: an easy way to delegate responsibility, a short cut we take without…

— Hannah Fry

“tackling real-world tasks requires being comfortable with chance, trading off time with accuracy, and using approximations.”

— Brian Christian

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

— Robert Tarjan

“If you believe that complex solutions are better than simple ones, or if you believe it’s better to take a simple guessing shortcut, but…

— Nat Greene

If an acquisition can speed a process or fill a gap, we'll jump right to that. It's about timing, need... it's not necessarily an…

— Peggy Johnson

The most important goal I had in mind was to convince people to stop blindly trusting algorithms and assuming that they are inherently fair…

— Cathy O'Neil

“As so often happens in computer science, we’re willing to sacrifice efficiency for generality.”

— Pedro Domingos

Humans are very good at making algorithms work eventually.

— Usama Fayyad