Algorithms Quotes

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.

In algorithms, as in life, persistence usually pays off.

Steven S. Skiena

An algorithm must be seen to be believed.

Donald Ervin Knuth

When we go online, we commit ourselves to the care of online mechanisms. Digital Band-Aids for digital wounds. We feed ourselves into machines, hoping some algorithm will digest the mess that is our experience into something legible, something more meaningful than the "bag of associations" we fear we are.

Maths is at only one remove from magic.