Peter Norvig Quotes

#1. If you're not dark inside and you come to this world, it'l turn you dark ... and if you really have Sunshine inside you, it's not good to play in the dark. It's just gonna extinguish your fire.

Tupac Shakur

#2. When you look at a film like 'The Ides of March' or 'Good Night, and Good Luck' even, those are really contained pictures.

Grant Heslov

#3. The people who hate SICP are the ones who just want to know how to drive their car on the highway, just like everyone else.

Peter Norvig

#4. When I was in school, working as a team was called cheating.

Peter Norvig

#5. All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them.

Peter Norvig

#6. All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.

Peter Lynch

#7. Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.

Peter Norvig

#8. My belief is that PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings.

Peter Norvig

#9. We dont have better algorithms, we just have more data

Peter Norvig

#10. I think test-driven design is great. But you can test all you want and if you don't know how to approach the problem, you're not going to get a solution.

Peter Norvig

#11. Let me just say that, if you ever have the choice of putting your words in powerpoint or having them carved into 30-foot high marble, I'd say go for the marble.

Peter Norvig

#12. Using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table.

Peter Norvig

#13. The Bible nowhere enters into an argument to prove the person and being of God. It assumes His being and reveals His person and character.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#14. Python has been an important part of Google since the beginning, and remains so as the system grows and evolves. Today dozens of Google engineers use Python, and we're looking for more people with skills in this language.

Peter Norvig

#15. When you play a character you have to ask yourself, 'Can I make sense of what's happening here? Is this authentic?'

Stephen Moyer

#16. More data beats clever algorithms, but better data beats more data.

Peter Norvig

#17. Either the distances betweem the distant quarters of the globe are diminished, or you have extended the powers of human action.

Hugh Elliot

#18. Simple models and a lot of data trump more elaborate models based on less data.

Peter Norvig

#19. I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of times, and it just doesn't work. But I get some good passages, so what I'm going to do is just take sections out of them.

Robyn Hitchcock

#20. PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings. But using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table: You can do very bad things with it.

Peter Norvig

#21. Pascal and C are special-purpose languages for manipulating the registers and memory of a von Neumann-style computer.

Peter Norvig