Peter Norvig Quotations

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.

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