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.
04/19/2023
…the demand for concrete measures of success seems to have led researchers towards less ambitious projects that admit easier evaluation, and has stymied progress on bigger and more important questions.
— Daniel Jackson, The Essence of Software
04/18/2023
Bureaucracy is a construction by which a person is conveniently separated from the consequences of his or her actions.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game
04/17/2023
What precisely is an elder, then? An elder is a man who takes your soul and your will into his soul and his will.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov
04/16/2023
…the fundamentally intractable problem of any democratic order is, precisely, authority.
— Alan Jacobs, How to Think
04/15/2023
…you shouldn’t hire managers who want to reorg because they read a blog post that said engineering teams work better when structured this particular way or that particular way.
— Marianne Bellotti, Kill It With Fire
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