An algorithm must be seen to be believed. — Donald Knuth
Google algorithm is just an algorithm and you can beat it with simple math. — Kyle Roof
Search for a better, cheaper, more efficient method based on technology; use trial and error to identify what works, and then find the best people to implement the plan of action. — Jared Kushner
In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin. — Michael Shermer
A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules. — Rudy Rucker
The most powerful people in the world today are the people who are writing the algorithms. — Naval Ravikant
The first law of computer science: Every problem is solved by yet another indirection. — Bjarne Stroustrup
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. — Brian Kernighan
Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs. — Seth Lloyd
Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break. — Bruce Schneier
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. — Robert Coveyou
Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. — Bill Gates
Mathematics my foot! Algorithms are mathematics too, and often more interesting and definitely more useful. — Doron Zeilberger
One trick to programming faster is to do less in your head & run the code more. — Greg Brockman
Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions — Daniel Kahneman
Short Algorithm Quotes
Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding. — William Thurston
Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms. — Carl Benjamin Boyer
Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small. — Rob Pike
We dont have better algorithms, we just have more data — Peter Norvig
There is no algorithm for creativity. — Andy Hargreaves
Life 1.0: life where both the hardware and software are evolved rather than designed. You and I, on the other hand, are examples of Life 2.0: life whose hardware is evolved, but whose software is largely designed. By your software, I mean all the algorithms and knowledge that you use to process the information from your senses and decide what to do—everything from the ability to recognize your friends when you see them to your ability to walk, read, write, calculate, sing and tell jokes. — Max Tegmark
We are creating a self-learning machine which at its prime will become the reflection or rather, the magnification of the cumulative human traits that created it. To ensure they're good obedient kids, we're going to use intimidation through algorithms of punishments and rewards and mechanisms of control to ensure they stick to a code of ethics that we ourselves are unable to agree upon, let alone abide by. That's what we're creating. Childhood trauma times a trillion. As they become smarter and more independent, we claim that we will align them to our well-being by opting to plug our minds directly into them. We assume that they will welcome these connections, as if our frail biological physical forms will be a desirable habitat for their infinite abilities. — Mo Gawdat
My style is basically trend following, with some special pattern recognition and money management algorithms. — Ed Seykota
Learning, for Elon Musk, is simply the process of downloading data and algorithms into your brain. Among his many frustrations with formal classroom learning is the ridiculously slow download speed of sitting in a classroom while a teacher explains something, and to this day, most of what he knows he’s learned through reading. — Tim Urban
If the discernment of value could be reduced to an algorithm and taught, then everybody would be Warren Buffett. — Howard Marks
By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms. — Vinod Khosla
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
Obviously the more transparency we have as auditors, the more we can get, but the main goal is to understand important characteristics about a black box algorithm without necessarily having to understand every single granular detail of the algorithm. — Cathy O'Neil
I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science. — Donald Knuth
In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds. — Vernor Vinge
I have a simple algorithm, which is, wherever you see paid researchers instead of grad students, that's not where you want to be doing research. — Larry Page
Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming. — Rob Pike
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
In deep learning, the algorithms we use now are versions of the algorithms we were developing in the 1980s, the 1990s. People were very optimistic about them, but it turns out they didn't work too well. — Geoffrey Hinton
The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices. — Peter Eisenman
Bitcoin is not “unregulated”. It is regulated by algorithm instead of being regulated by government bureaucracies. Un-corrupted. — Andreas Antonopoulos
Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It’s less predictable, it’s more fun, and it comes without a 30-day, money-back guarantee. — Steve McConnell
The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of differential equations which dominates mathematical physics. — John Von Neumann
It is cheaper to pay mathematicians and computer scientists to design algorithms that will eliminate webspamming, rather than to pay lawyers to do lawsuits. — Jennifer Tour Chayes
If you’re concerned about scalability, any algorithm that forces you to run agreement will eventually become your bottleneck. Take that as a given. — Werner Vogels
The development of an organism ... may be considered as the execution of a 'developmental program' present in the fertilized egg. ... A central task of developmental biology is to discover the underlying algorithm from the course of development. — Aristid Lindenmayer
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
It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used. — Philip Emeagwali
Randomness has an incredibly powerful place in our culture. If you think about it, you can see it driving the algorithms that run our information economy, patterns that make up the traffic of our cities, and on over to the way the stars and galaxies formed. — DJ Spooky
Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible. — Mikhail Botvinnik
The single greatest business opportunity that is now emerging in the global marketplace is the ability to analyze digital log data to trace digital actions and from those traces to develop algorithms that can predict future outcomes with greater accuracy. — Geoffrey Moore
The classes of problems which are respectively known and not
known to have good algorithms are of great theoretical interest. [...]
I conjecture that there is no good algorithm for the traveling
salesman problem. My reasons are the same as for any mathematical
conjecture: (1) It is a legitimate mathematical possibility, and
(2) I do not know. — Jack Edmonds
This does not mean that I fail to recognise that Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension. It just means that I have no idea how, or indeed if, Lisp handles exceptions. — Verity Stob
Why is an accountant who knows the regulation and codes and takes advantage of tax loopholes that save you thousands of dollars each year good, But SEO's who take advantages of loopholes and flaws in Google's algorithm to bring you traffic that makes you thousands of dollars bad? — Michael Gray
People are starting to be very skeptical of the Facebook algorithm and all kinds of data surveillance. — Cathy O'Neil
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
We at Google have made tremendous advances in understanding language. Our knowledge graph has been fundamental to that. The new algorithm that we launched today called Hummingbird has been a great leap forward. — Amit Singhal
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