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The question I want to ask is, can we make algorithms boring?
— Boaz Barak,
introducing his research area
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The definition is kind of like pornography: I'll know it when I see it.
— Boaz Barak,
on combinatorial optimization
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There is a saying in Hebrew: it's OK to piss in the pool, but don't do it from the diving board.
— Boaz Barak,
on allowing negative probabilities, as long as they're not too negative
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To the naked eye these algorithms seem indistinguishable: the difference is in the number of umlauts in the names of the authors.
— Boaz Barak
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