Algorithms Quote by Jennifer Tour Chayes

I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from…

— Donald Knuth

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

“the algorithms might actually come to own businesses instead of just managing them, and humans could end up working for and paying rent to…

— GBF Summary

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

All around us, algorithms provide a kind of convenient source of authority: an easy way to delegate responsibility, a short cut we take without…

— 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

“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

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

— 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

Mathematicians are fairly cheap.

— Terence Tao

We have this imbalance where the people who are making algorithms aren't talking to the people who are using them. And the people who…

— Hannah Fry

When the Internet first appeared, this heated debate developed among economists. One side said the Internet will make it easier for companies to price-discriminate,…

— Austan Goolsbee