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.
09/21/2026
…as Bentham notes, many grown animals are far more intelligent than newborn babies, but we accord newborn babies rights.
— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now
09/20/2026
The lesson that I slowly learned was that you couldn’t be an effective long-term leader until you learn how to follow.
— Will Larson and Tanya Reilly, Staff Engineer
09/19/2026
For every complex problem, there is an answer that is short, simple, and wrong. –H. L. Mencken…
— Steve McConnell, Rapid Development
09/18/2026
On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering. We cannot love otherwise, and we know of no other sort of love.
— Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
09/17/2026
Instead of using computation to understand nature, they say, we will eventually accept that everything in nature is computation.
— Peter J. Denning and Matti Tedre, Computational Thinking
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