Algorithmic Quotes

#1. The next question is how? How does news find us?
What you need is a certain critical literacy about the fact that you are almost always subject to an algorithm. The most powerful thing in your world now is an algorithm about which you know nothing about.

Kelly McBride

#2. I think we endure the banal as a way of skirting around the bane.

David Levithan

#3. The bouillon cubes of discrete human-like intellects thus melt into an algorithmic soup.

Nick Bostrom

#4. In fact, the private sector is improving their algorithmic ability to search through big data month after month after month. And, of course, a big government bureaucracy isn't keeping up.

Carly Fiorina

#5. If you are earning your money through violence, all this money is unethical, because violence and ethics cannot be together!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. The mind is complicated and you can't trace the roots of its processes, but there is something about mathematical and algorithmic patterns that I like to recognize in things.

Aleksandar Hemon

#7. I take the view that we all have permission to be a little baffled by quantum information science and algorithmic information theory.

James Gleick

#8. To receive one thing with gratitude is to give ten things in return.

Sri Chinmoy

#9. Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.

Eli Pariser

#10. Harvard Business School's Teresa Amabile have found that external rewards and punishments - both carrots and sticks - can work nicely for algorithmic tasks. But they can be devastating for heuristic ones.

Daniel H. Pink

#11. To reprise language from the previous chapter, the solution isn't algorithmic (following a set path) but heuristic (breaking from the path to discover a novel strategy).

Daniel H. Pink

#12. A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of the harder-to-outsource, harder-to-automate, non-routine, creative, juristic - as the scholars call it - abilities.

Daniel H. Pink

#13. More and more, your computer monitor is a kind of one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click. Google's

Eli Pariser

#14. I just think if you have an emotion and you let that go that moment might pass. If you don't open the door for the person to come in, it would have just been like, Nice to meet you - goodbye.

Heidi Klum

#15. I like clothes that make me feel good. My favourite designers include Michelle Jonas and Dolce & Gabbana. Their clothes make me feel as if I'm Sophia Loren - really womanly.

Heather Graham

#16. 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

#17. Matching the right kidney to the right patient is one example of an algorithmic artificial intelligence.

Hari Sreenivasan

#18. In order to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it. All the works of human genius can be understood in the end to be products of a cascade of generate-and-test procedures that are, at bottom, algorithmic and mindless

Daniel Dennett

#19. Our vocabulary may become a real time algorithmic word bank.
Could you imagine having a conversation like that?
Where the meaning of words constantly adapts?

Natasha Tsakos

#20. The brightest moments of human discovery are those unplanned and random instants when you thumb through a strange book in a foreign library or talk auto maintenance with a neuroanatomist. We need our searches to include cross-wiring and dumb accidents, too, not just algorithmic surety.

Michael Harris

#21. They fell asleep smiling. It is to erase the fixed smiles of sleeping couples that Satan trained roosters to crow at five in the morning.

Tom Robbins

#22. Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension.

Verity Stob