Algorithms Quotes

59 quotes by 51 authors

The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices. — Peter Eisenman
An algorithm is like a recipe. — Muhammad Waseem
There's a belief that whatever it is I'm looking for is out there, but I have a really difficult time finding it. Search algorithms alone… — Chris Shipley
A formal parsing algorithm should not always be used. — David Gries
There is no Algorithm for Humor — Robert Mankoff
An algorithm must be seen to be believed. — Donald Knuth
The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or… — Tim Berners-Lee
A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of… — Jerry Saltz
In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves… — Michael Shermer
Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be… — Geoff Mulgan
As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have serviced through which… — Douglas Rushkoff
Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players. So the amateur… — Douglas Rushkoff
The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is… — Donald Knuth
Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles. — David Eagleman
I really wanted to talk to her. I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit. — Peter Watts
When The Daily Muse initially wanted to launch a job board, our first ideas were insanely (and needlessly) complex. We wanted to integrate with social… — Kathryn Minshew
To understand the limits and opportunities of algorithms in the context of artistic creation, we need to understand that the latter usually consists of three… — Evgeny Morozov
There is a calculus, it turns out, for mastering our subconscious urges. For companies like Target, the exhaustive rendering of our conscious and unconscious patterns… — Charles Duhigg
Formula creation is magnitudes harder for computer algorithms than actually executing within a formula. But once the genre is created and the formula is known,… — Philip M. Parker

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