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Algorithms Quotes by Donald Knuth
- I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making…
- [The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day.
- An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
- 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…
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- Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms. — Carl Benjamin Boyer
- The development of an organism ... may be considered as the execution of a 'developmental program' present in the fertilized egg. ...… — Aristid Lindenmayer
- The burgeoning field of computer science has shifted our view of the physical world from that of a collection of interacting material… — Paul Davies
- If there was some sort of mathematical equation for beauty, I don’t know if I would be the algorithm. I’m not a… — Lady Gaga
- These algorithms, which I'll call public relevance algorithms, are-by the very same mathematical procedures-producing and certifying knowledge. The algorithmic assessment of information,… — Tarleton Gillespie
- 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
- Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as they are,' or in the… — Barbara Ehrenreich
- And, in the future, while the dumb show of bohemianism plays itself out in the cookie cutter shape of the politically correct… — Adam Parfrey