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.
08/10/2021
…because of the dynamic equilibrium of the software development ecosystem, predictability has expired. Enterprise architects may still make plans, but they may be invalidated at any moment.
— Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, and Patrick Kua, Building Evolutionary Architectures
08/09/2021
That’s my gripe with Quality Programs. They focus on one easy and actionable aspect of quality and ignore everything else. They concentrate on something that is almost incidental to real quality and ignore what really matters.
— Tom DeMarco, Slack
08/08/2021
…history weighs upon our lives and destinies in proportion to our ignorance of the past.
— Luc Ferry, A Brief History of Thought
08/07/2021
…stupidity, real stupidity, is not knowing that you don’t know. Stupid people think they know something when they don’t, or they have no idea that there is something more to know. This sort of stupidity is something that can be found in nearly every field, and software development is no exception.
— Max Kanat-Alexander, Understanding Software
08/06/2021
The Strongest Poison ever known Came from Caesars Laurel Crown
— William Blake, The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake
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