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.
10/29/2024
…our ubiquitous quality improvement programs just make real quality improvement harder.
— Tom DeMarco, Slack
10/28/2024
In the long-term, companies either learn to explore, or they fade away; this isn’t an ignorable challenge.
— Will Larson and Tanya Reilly, Staff Engineer
10/27/2024
…if you plan to use a productivity tool, you should add about 25 percent on top of the total time you expect to spend working with the tool for use in working around the tool’s limitations.
— Steve McConnell, Rapid Development
10/26/2024
If we used a million computers, each with a billion cores, where each core can compute a quintillion operations a second, it would still take nearly a googol ages of the universe to look through all the possible cliques of fifty people among the 20,000 residents of Frenemy (a googol is 1 followed by 100 zeros). The P versus NP problem still remains relevant in a parallel world.
— Lance Fortnow, The Golden Ticket
10/25/2024
No rich man ever succeeds in disguising himself as a poor man; for money, like murder, will out.
— George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
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