On men

After a discussion on the possibility of getting married:

Sharmin: You know, I think my boyfriends are successive approximations of the kind of person I want to marry.
Eric: [laughs] Yeah well, your first one wasn't a very good guess, was he?
Sharmin: He was randomly selected! [pause] Really, if I keep this up, it's going to prove to be an excellent algorithm.
Eric: Random selection of a starting point is pretty standard for iterative algorithms.
Kathy: What about my boyfriends?
Sharmin: [considering] I think you're doing a random walk until you find the right one.