Peter Norvig Quotations

We didn't want to be in the position of having to hand over these kinds of records to the government.

We thought it was very important to keep our users out of jail.

There is a lot of truth in there, but there's also a lot of crazy stuff. We just don't tell them which is which.

They don't have personally identifiable information but they do have IP addresses that are potentially identifiable with an individual.

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.

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.

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

How can you make informed decisions ... ? The key seems to be to gather experts who are knowledgeable and passionate about the subject matter, and have them cooperatively discuss a series of questions designed to explore the limits of technical feasibility. They must strive to reach the best decision rather than to persuade each other.

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

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

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

We dont have better algorithms, we just have more data

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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