Algorithms Quote by Steven S. Skiena

“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

“As so often happens in computer science, we’re willing to sacrifice efficiency for generality.”

— Pedro Domingos

“Experience is algorithmically incompressible.”

— Ted Chiang

“The crucial problem is creating new jobs that humans perform better than algorithms.20”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Effective algorithms make assumptions, show a bias toward a simple solutions, trade off the costs of error against the cost of delay, and take…

— Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths

Humans are very good at making algorithms work eventually.

— Usama Fayyad

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

“1. Are organisms really just algorithms, and is life really just data processing? 2. What’s more valuable – intelligence or consciousness? 3. What will…

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

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

— Damian Mingle

“Maybe, as Mizuko said, we won't even really die, just carry on in the feedback loop we are stuck in. Instead of connecting with…

— Olivia Sudjic

“The algorithms would make sure that those deemed losers would remain that way. A lucky minority would gain ever more control over the data…

— Cathy O'Neil