Algorithms Quote by Cathy O'Neil

Imagine life without any algorithms at all, you wouldn't be able to do anything. This is already completely encompassing. We have a habit of…

— Hannah Fry

Because, ultimately, we can't just think of algorithms in isolation. We have to think of the failings of the people who design them -…

— Hannah Fry

Nature doesn't feel compelled to stick to a mathematically precise algorithm; in fact, nature probably can't stick to an algorithm.

— Margaret Wertheim

“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

Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.

— Clay Shirky

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

“no matter how much tech companies talk about algorithms like they’re nothing but advanced math, they always reflect the values of their creators:”

— Sara Wachter-Boettcher

Humans are very good at making algorithms work eventually.

— Usama Fayyad

I am worried that algorithms are getting too prominent in the world. It started out that computer scientists were worried nobody was listening to…

— Donald Knuth

I don't like the algorithms that don't do what they claim they do.

— Hannah Fry

We dont have better algorithms, we just have more data

— Peter Norvig

Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that…

— Amos Tversky