Algorithms Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

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

“Algorithm’ is arguably the single most important concept in our world. If we want to understand our life and our future, we should make…

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

An algorithm is like a recipe.

— Muhammad Waseem

More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea of an…

— David Berlinski

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

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

“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

Once you succeed in writing the programs for [these] complicated algorithms, they usually run extremely fast. The computer doesn't need to understand the algorithm,…

— Robert Tarjan

“An algorithm gives you the instructions directly. A heuristic tells you how to discover the instructions for yourself, or at least where to look…

— Steve McConnell

Computation involves going from a question to an answer. Mathematics involves going from an answer to a question.

— Peter Hilton

If the system exhibits a structure which can be represented by a mathematical equivalent, called a mathematical model, and if the objective can be…

— George Dantzig