James Huang

“Algorithms are an exacting standard. It’s often said that you don’t really understand something until you can express it as an algorithm.”
― Pedro Domingos, The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World

“I typed my whole syntax table into memory. I said, "I'll just follow along in memory and, if what he types fits the syntax table, then whenever he hits return, I know all the elements he typed in." I just output a list of little tokens that represented what had been typed in, if it matched the table. This was just an idea I had, not knowing how other people did it. I don't know to this day how compilers are written.”
― Jessica Livingston, Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

“In any area of science, if a theory cannot be expressed as an algorithm, it’s not entirely rigorous.”
― Pedro Domingos, The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World