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.
08/03/2020
Any time freedom is allowed it will be abused. This is not a flaw in freedom (else police states might be more desirable) but a flaw in humanity.
— Zach Weinersmith, Polystate
08/02/2020
When people call you intelligent it is almost always because they agree with you. Otherwise they just call you arrogant.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes
08/01/2020
Many significant advances in our understanding of the cosmos are by-products of government investment in the apparatus of warfare, and many innovative instruments of destruction are by-products of advances in astrophysics.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson and Avis Lang, Accessory
07/31/2020
Part of the strength of mathematics is that it expresses universal truths but is able to express them in different ways.
— Matt Parker, Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension
07/30/2020
The kernel is probably as far as the correctness proof technique should be applied.
— Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Design of Design
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