13 Algorithm Quotes for You to Enjoy

Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code. Ellen Ullman

Art Design Programming Algorithm Craft Code

Animals see a video of the world. If an animal were only to see still images, how would its vision develop? Neuroscientists have run experiments in cats in a dark environment with a strobe so it can only see still images - and those cats' visual systems actually underdevelop. So motion is important, but what is the algorithm? Andrew Ng

Animal Cats World Vision Dark Animals Important Algorithm Those Systems Run Visual Would See Only Develop Environment How Motion Still Were Experiments Video Actually Images

YouTube's algorithm doesn't know what's going on in the world. Burnie Burns

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We know that no algorithm can solve global poverty; no pill can cure a chronic illness; no box of chocolates can mend a broken relationship; no educational DVD can transform a child into a baby Einstein; no drone strike can end a terrorist conflict. Sadly, there is no such thing as 'One Tip to a Flat Stomach.' Carl Honore

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An algorithm must be seen to be believed. Donald Knuth

Seen Algorithm Must Believed

Metro police can't infuse hope into those for whom hope is foreign. The algorithm does not exist that can heal the traumatized. Data-driven predictions won't result in the delivery of mental health services. Greg Boyle

The birth of the search engine, it's nothing new: it's essentially embedded in our literature; it's how ideas relate, how the mind makes connections. I mean, connections are made online through links, and within an algorithm, they're made through degrees of relevancy between different terms. Joshua Cohen

Mind Made Nothing Relate Birth Algorithm Our Embedded Degrees Online Through Between New Ideas Terms Within Makes How Links Essentially Different Literature Mean Nothing New Engine Connections Search Search Engine

I took a computer-science course to fill a prerequisite at Stanford, and I realized that every day was a new problem, and every day you got to think about how to solve something new, how to reason through something new, how to develop an algorithm to solve for something you hadn't worked on before. Marissa Mayer

Day You Every Day Problem Before Every Think Algorithm Took Solve About Something Something New Through Develop New Course Got How Realized Worked Reason Stanford Fill Prerequisite

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

Brilliant Google Algorithm Those Ranks Valued Web Because Links Them Themselves Page Pages Uses Origin Comparison Number

When I was working on my Ph.D., I developed a computer algorithm to look for rapid changes in populations' DNA. Our DNA changes constantly over generations, but if certain changes spread through a population more quickly than others, they are probably the beneficial results of natural selection. This is the protection we give ourselves to survive. Pardis Sabeti

Natural Protection Changes Others Algorithm Beneficial Our Ourselves Rapid Constantly Give More Results Through Computer Selection Developed Generations Over Look Spread Quickly Survive Than To Survive Certain Natural Selection Working Population

There are a lot of people, who want to be writers, who stumble at a blank page. You could imagine an algorithm that could give writers a first draft or a starter kit, so it could enable people to be more prolific in their writing. Philip M. Parker

If I outline Prince Charming, I could end up with someone with no chemistry. I don't believe in trying to calculate one type of chemistry via algorithm, but I do think you need to do as much as you possibly can. Whitney Wolfe Herd

You can harvest any data that you want, on anybody. You can infer any data that you like, and you can use it to manipulate them in any way that you choose. And you can roll out an algorithm that genuinely makes massive differences to people's lives, both good and bad, without any checks and balances. Hannah Fry

Good You People Differences Algorithm Way Harvest Out Bad Data Both Checks Like Checks And Balances Massive Balances Without Makes Genuinely Infer Roll Any Anybody Want Manipulate Them Good And Bad Use Choose Lives

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