Algorithmically Quotes

#1. Google and Facebook don't have "users" or "customers". Instead, they have participants under machine surveillance, whose activities are algorithmically combined within Big Data silos. - Author: Bruce Sterling

#2. Social media, for all of its limitations, is rarely irrelevant. The stream of updates on your Facebook page, for instance, is algorithmically engineered to be darn-near irresistible. - Author: Ryan Holmes

#3. Capitalism is just a front lined big word people use to hide their ignorance in their sophisticated clothing. People have a full spectrum of words to snub their part of the problem to console that they are not the cause of a callous situation, so they cannot be a part of the solution. - Author: M. T. Panchal

#4. Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive. - Author: Jodi Picoult

#5. Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment
where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels
this moment shows us that what is real is sacred - Author: Mark Nepo

#6. For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is the summation of all his desires. - Author: John Carroll

#7. Help them to learn songs of joy, instead of burn, baby, burn. - Author: Paul McCartney

#8. A random sequence is one that cannot be algorithmically compressed : the shortest description of a random sequence is simply the sequence itself. - Author: Gregory Chaitin

#9. There was a fine thing about that trout. I only wish I could have made a death mask of him. Not of his body though, but of his energy. I don't know if anyone would have understood his body. I put it in my creel. - Author: Richard Brautigan

#10. What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed. - Author: Mark Nepo

#11. No politician is perfect. But in every election in your life, there will be one choice that is better than the others. Go out and vote for that one. - Author: Bill Maher

#12. I'm starting to think, though, that some things never get that. The replay, and all. So at some point you have to make peace with it as it is, not keep waiting for a chance to change it - Author: Sarah Dessen

#13. Maxims in times of danger are useless, experience is incommunicable. The knotted strands of life, desire, assumptions, and moral codes cannot be unsnarled; they can only be cut, which is what happens when an air raid occurs, with a silencing fortissimo like the finale of a Beethoven symphony. - Author: Jacques Barzun

#14. I swim three times a week. - Author: Ken Livingstone

#15. Experience is algorithmically incompressible. - Author: Ted Chiang

#16. His "Harmonian Court of Love," in which individuals are algorithmically paired for romantic and sexual liaisons, sounded preposterous in the middle nineteenth century. Today it is the banal reality of online dating (eHarmony). Since - Author: Chris Jennings

#17. Is in vitro fertilization where you have all the fun in a glass house? - Author: Dr Steven Bottomley