Algorithms Quote by Doron Zeilberger

Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.

— Thomas de Quincey

Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about physical processes.

— Richard Hamming

“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

The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of differential equations…

— John von Neumann

Bitcoin is not “unregulated”. It is regulated by algorithm instead of being regulated by government bureaucracies. Un-corrupted.

— Andreas Antonopoulos

I like to think our brains are a bit like algorithms. Whatever you give it and feed it, you get out the product.

— Declan McKenna

[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day.

— Donald Knuth

Object-oriented programming aficionados think that everything is an object… this [isn't] so. There are things that are objects. Things that have state and change…

— Alexander Stepanov

I don't think anybody's ever notified that they were sentenced to an extra two years because their recidivism score had been high, or notified…

— Cathy O'Neil

“Data Scientists should recall innovation often times is not providing fancy algorithms, but rather value to the customer.”

— Damian Mingle

No one knows what the right algorithm is, but it gives us hope that if we can discover some crude approximation of whatever this…

— Andrew Ng

The classes of problems which are respectively known and not known to have good algorithms are of great theoretical interest. [...] I conjecture that…

— Jack Edmonds