Quote of the Day
If you enjoy programming, philosophy, math, or any number of geeky topics, you're in the right place. Every day, I'll post a random quote from my extensive collection of Kindle highlights. Quotes do not necessarily reflect my views or opinions. In fact, part of my epistemic process is to consume a wide variety of contradictory material.
12/18/2023
What are great men? They are ordinary human beings who are ignorant and vain enough to accept responsibility for the life of society, individuals who would rather take the blame for all the cruelties, injustices, disasters justified in their name than recognise their own insignificance and impotence in the cosmic flow which pursues its course irrespective of their wills and ideals.
— Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy, and Michael Ignatieff, The Hedgehog and the Fox
12/17/2023
Each year the US population spends more money on diets than the amount needed to feed all the hungry people in the rest of the world.
— Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens
12/16/2023
In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
12/15/2023
It is easy, during a review, to review the work product from the point of view of what your own solution approach would be, rather than the solution approach chosen by the developer.
— Robert L. Glass, Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
12/14/2023
…one thing that’s really important is to not be afraid of your ignorance.
— Peter Seibel, Coders at Work
1911 post articles, 383 pages.