Quotes by Algorithms 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 their state are objects. And then there are things that are not objects. A binary search is not an object. It is an algorithm Alexander Stepanov algorithmsstatesthinking The Arab world is also the world that produced some of the greatest improvements in mathematics and in science. Even today, when a Princeton mathematician does an algorithm, he may not remember that "algorithm" derived from the name al-Khwarizmi, who is a ninth-century Arab mathematician. Amartya Sen algorithmsnamesdoe Bitcoin is not “unregulated”. It is regulated by algorithm instead of being regulated by government bureaucracies. Un-corrupted. Andreas Antonopoulos algorithmsbitcoingovernment No one knows what the right algorithm is, but it gives us hope that if we can discover some crude approximation of whatever this algorithm is and implement it on a computer, that can help us make a lot of progress. Andrew Ng algorithmsprogressgiving Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break. Bruce Schneier algorithmscluelessbreak I know how models are built, because I build them myself, so I know that I'm embedding my values into every single algorithm I create and I am projecting my agenda onto those algorithms. Cathy O'Neil embeddingalgorithmsagendas I would argue that one of the major problems with our blind trust in algorithms is that we can propagate discriminatory patterns without acknowledging any kind of intent. Cathy O'Neil algorithmspatternsarguing People are starting to be very skeptical of the Facebook algorithm and all kinds of data surveillance. Cathy O'Neil algorithmsdatapeople I did once leave one of [my kid] watching something on YouTube, something completely innocuous, and I went out of the room and the algorithm kept playing the next thing and the next thing and somehow worked its way around to showing him the trailer for John Carpenter's The Thing - at which point I walked back in. He wasn't happy. Charlie Brooker algorithmskidsway Lead generation excels when a campaign is looking to capture a piece of factual intelligence that could never be modelled or predicted through profiling and sophisticated propensity algorithms. Chris Cunningham algorithmsgenerationscampaigns There's a belief that whatever it is I'm looking for is out there, but I have a really difficult time finding it. Search algorithms alone are falling short in being able to provide real context around information. Chris Shipley algorithmsrealfall Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws. Clay Shirky algorithmsflawsjobs Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles. David Eagleman algorithmsdesignbrain A formal parsing algorithm should not always be used. David Gries algorithmsusedhumorous Nothing will ever replace the experience of wandering haphazardly through a great bookstore, no matter how many algorithms are developed to find matches for our tastes. That's because not only is there no accounting for taste, there is no predicting it either. Dominique Browning algorithmsbookstoresmatter An algorithm must be seen to be believed. Donald Knuth algorithmscomputer-scienceengineering The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct. Donald Knuth algorithmsmachinesway I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it had 1,000 deep algorithms. I think we've probably reached 500. Donald Knuth algorithmsdisciplinethinking [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 present-dayalgorithmshistory Mathematics my foot! Algorithms are mathematics too, and often more interesting and definitely more useful. Doron Zeilberger algorithmsfeetinteresting123»
