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.
06/04/2026
Failure of second-order thinking: he tells you a secret and somehow expects you to keep it, when he just gave you evidence that he can’t keep it himself.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes
06/03/2026
If you really want to be smart, use your intelligence to cause action in the physical universe…
— Max Kanat-Alexander, Understanding Software
06/02/2026
Meetings must exist, but meetings cannot be seen as the only solution for making progress. If you must meet, start the meeting by remembering that the definition of a successful meeting is that when the meeting is done, it need never occur again.
— Michael Lopp, Managing Humans
06/01/2026
If you want to outperform—if you want to do anything not usually done—then you’ll need to conceptually divide our civilization into areas of lower and greater competency.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Inadequate Equilibria
05/31/2026
…are the old constrained in their thought by their declining physical condition and hopelessly locked into a historical form of nostalgia?
— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now
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