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.
06/26/2023
It is not an accident that the research behind the Accelerate book found that one of the defining characteristics of high-performing teams, based on measures of stability and throughput, is that they can make decisions within the team, without seeking permission from, or coordination with, other groups. Such teams are informationally decoupled.
— David Farley, Modern Software Engineering
06/25/2023
One of the simplest and most effective techniques to learn something is to try to teach it.
— Andy Hunt, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
06/24/2023
The detailed blow-by-blow flow chart, however, is an obsolete nuisance, suitable only for initiating beginners into algorithmic thinking.
— Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month
06/23/2023
T. S. Eliot, a great admirer of the work, commented: “How much the work of logicians has done to make of English a language in which it is possible to think clearly and exactly on any subject. The Principia Mathematica are perhaps a greater contribution to our language than they are to mathematics.”
— Chris Bernhardt, Turing’s Vision
06/22/2023
…there is no way that Newton’s law—or any other law of physics—can be proved in the mathematical sense of the word.
— Eli Maor, E
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