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.
07/08/2025
The true humility required of a developer is the willingness to remove their identity from the user’s world.
— Max Kanat-Alexander, Understanding Software
07/07/2025
I’d been groomed by society to see math as a way of drawing a circle and putting myself in it, believing that math was a showcase for flaunting talent rather than a playground for building virtue.
— Francis Su, Mathematics for Human Flourishing
07/06/2025
…professional means unsurprising. You will be considered professional to the extent you look, act, and think like everyone else, a perfect drone.
— Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister, Peopleware
07/05/2025
Inventors and geniuses, at the beginning of their careers (and very often at the end as well), have almost always been regarded in society as no more than fools—that is a most routine observation, well known to everyone.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
07/04/2025
…we believe that people should have not open minds but settled convictions. We cannot make progress intellectually or socially until some issues are no longer up for grabs.
— Alan Jacobs, How to Think
1914 post articles, 383 pages.