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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.

05/18/2025

For a long time my perspective has been that being able to write code, in our current time, puts you in one of the best positions in the history of humanity, in terms of job security and trajectory, and that seemed like enough for me.

— Will Larson and Tanya Reilly, Staff Engineer

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05/17/2025

An aspect of programming that you seem to keep running up against is that while we are unbound by physical constraints we get tied down by accidents of history.

— Peter Seibel, Coders at Work

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05/15/2025

The most common approach to implementing change seems to be to try to standardize processes across an organization. “Process mapping” and “business transformation” are big business for management consultancies. The problem is that all organizations, certainly those involved in creative work, are dependent on human creativity. If we could “standardize” the process into a series of steps, we could automate it and eliminate the costly, error-prone people.

— David Farley, Modern Software Engineering

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