Failure Quote by Daniel Kahneman

“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

“began by pointing out the small mountain of research that suggested that expert judgment was less reliable than algorithms.”

— Michael Lewis

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

— Steven S. Skiena

“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

“No sociologist, for instance, should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in…

— Max Weber

“...it is often the case that when things get really hairy, you want an experienced human being in control. The preference for algorithms over…

— Matthew B. Crawford

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

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

“Mathematicians have, according to Wright, been "unreasonably successful" in finding applications to apparently useless theorems, and often years after the theorems were first discovered.”

— Alex Bellos

As algorithms push humans out of the job market, wealth and power might become concentrated in the hands of the tiny elite that owns…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“algorithms can be, as she says, “used as weapons” to perpetuate discrimination. They can use math to camouflage bias.”

— Scott Hartley

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