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.
06/02/2023
The world is a system and a network: to conceive of men as ‘free’ is to think of them as capable of having, at some past juncture, acted in some fashion other than that in which they did act; it is to think of what consequences would have come of such unfulfilled possibilities, and in what respects the world would have been different, as a result, from the world as it now is.
— Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy, and Michael Ignatieff, The Hedgehog and the Fox
06/01/2023
William Duggan’s research in Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement asserts that when you completely let go, of even trying to solve the problem, the brain recategorizes and re-sorts all apparently unrelated information into new innovative solutions.
— Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, and Kaley Klemp, The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
05/31/2023
…usually, when things suck, it’s because they suck in a way that’s a Nash equilibrium.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Inadequate Equilibria
05/30/2023
…simple design is an imprecise discipline. It relies on judgment and experience. Done well, it is the first indication that separates an apprentice who knows the rules from a journeyman who understands the principles.
— Robert C. Martin, Clean Craftsmanship
05/29/2023
There is a hole at the bottom of math, a hole that means we will never know everything with certainty. There will always be true statements that cannot be proven.
— Veritasium, Math’s Fundamental Flaw
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