Algorithmic Literacy Quotes & Sayings

There's no present left. This is the problem for a novelist. [The problem] is the present is gone. We're all living in the future constantly ... Back in the day Leo Tolstoy
what a sweetheart of a count and of a writer
in the 1860's he wanted to write about the Napoleonic Campaign, about 1812. If you write about 1812 in 1860, a horse is still a horse. A carriage is still a carriage. Obviously, there are been some technological advancements, et cetera, but you don't have to worry about explaining the next killer [iPhone] app or the next Facebook because right now things are happening so quickly. ("Gary Shteyngart: Finding 'Love' In A Dismal Future", NPR interview, August 2, 2010) — Gary Shteyngart

But if he loves you, he will profess it, he will provide for you, and he will protect you. If he really loves you, the ultimate profession is, This is my wife. — Steve Harvey

America has a unique type of slavery that looks like freedom. — Bryant McGill

When I act, I act. When I sing, I sing. I don't put one over the other. Entertaining is what I do best. — Irene Cara

The thoughts you think and the actions you take in the first ten minutes after you wake up have a very marked effect on the rest of your day. — Robin S. Sharma

Maybe the world wasn't made of universals that could be summed up in neat little packages. Maybe there were just people. People who were tired and hurt and lonely and kind in their own way and their own time. — Clare Vanderpool

The perfection of means and the confusion of ends seems to be our problem. — Albert Einstein

Sofya now understood the difference between life and existence: her life had come to an end, but her existence could drag on indefinitely. And however wretched and miserable this existence was, the thought of violent death still filled her with horror. — Vasily Grossman

We plan absentee ownership as far as running the Yankees is concerned. — George Steinbrenner

When he's connected up to your nervous system, you'll be able to make him whistle, hiss, roar, flap his wings, and spit sparks, though it may take a few days to assimilate him into your body picture. Don't be surprised if at first he just burps and looks seasick. Take your shirt off, please. — Samuel R. Delany

The great white cold walks abroad! — Richard Hovey

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