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"Well, I think the bubble sort would be the wrong way to go." --Barack Obama
by flashdance 9y ago
"Well, I think the bubble sort would be the wrong way to go."
--Barack Obama
- yoz-y 9y agoI did not know about this and Googled the line out of curiosity. TIL
- rkuykendall-com 9y agoSame, googled and found this great story: http://fortune.com/2015/08/18/mindware-nisbett/ http://fortune.com/2015/08/18/mindware-nisbett/ > Shortly after Barack Obama announced he was running for president in the fall of 2007, Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt, interviewed him in front of a large audience of Google employees. As a joke, Schmidt’s first question was, “What is the most efficient way to sort a million 32- bit integers?” Before Schmidt could ask a real question, Obama interrupted: “Well, I think the bubble sort would be the wrong way to go,” a response that was in fact correct. Schmidt slapped his forehead in astonishment, and the room broke out in applause. Later, in the question-and-answer period, Obama assured his audience, “I am a big believer in reason and facts and evidence and science and feedback,” and promised that he would run the government accordingly. > In the audience that day was a product manager named Dan Siroker, who made a decision on the spot to go to work for Obama. “He had me at bubble sort.”