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.
11/21/2023
…the danger doesn’t lie in doing something wrong; it lies in doing nothing at all.
— Andy Hunt, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
11/20/2023
Not everything that happens happens for a reason, but everything that survives survives for a reason.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game
11/19/2023
Anyone may be a hero: their response, not the circumstances themselves, determines it.
— Stephen Anderson, Hap & Happiness
11/18/2023
Universities and research labs force hackers to be scientists, and companies force them to be engineers.
— Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters
11/17/2023
…postmodern Theory seeks not to be factually true but to be strategically useful: in order to bring about its own aims, morally virtuous and politically useful by its own definitions.
— Helen Pluckrose and James A. Lindsay, Cynical Theories
1899 post articles, 380 pages.