What Algorithms Want Quotes

“Indeed the most prevalent set of metaphors seems to be that of code as structure: platforms, architectures, objects, portals, gateways. This serves to both depersonify software, diluting the notion of software agency (buildings are passive; it’s the architects, engineers, and users who act), and reifying code as an objective construct, like a building, that exists in the world.”
― Ed Finn, What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing

“At the same time, we are hard at work constructing intimacy with algorithms, from our willingness to play along with Siri to the things we type into search bars when we think nobody is looking.”
― Ed Finn, What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing