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.
12/28/2023
…we libertarians worry that Hobbes’ social contract can evolve into a state Leviathan that wields so much power that we have even fewer liberties than in the original state of nature.
— Michael Shermer, Joe Carter, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Ronald Bailey, and Jason Kuznicki, Brain, Belief, and Politics
12/27/2023
…legacy modernization is less about technical implementation and more about the morale of the team doing the modernizing.
— Marianne Bellotti, Kill It With Fire
12/26/2023
All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies and lies…
— Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
12/25/2023
St. Augustine’s “love God and do as you will” can be easily translated, “Be healthy and then you may trust your impulses.”
— Abraham Maslow, Motivation and Personality
12/24/2023
I believe “a science of design” to be an impossible and indeed misleading goal.
— Frederick P. Jr. Brooks, The Design of Design
1911 post articles, 383 pages.