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.
06/07/2021
However ardently I, or all mankind, may desire something, however necessary it may be to human happiness, that is no ground for supposing this something to exist.
— Martin Gardner, The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener
06/06/2021
Just be sure that the programmers working on a story are not also writing the acceptance tests for that story.
— Robert C. Martin, Clean Agile
06/05/2021
This idea — that the bottom level, though 100 percent responsible for what is happening, is nonetheless irrelevant to what happens — sounds almost paradoxical, and yet it is an everyday truism.
— Douglas R. Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop
06/04/2021
If we could understand the reason for suffering, God would no longer be hidden. And only if God remains concealed, remains a deus abscondus, can faith escape contamination by coercion.
— Martin Gardner, The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener
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