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.
09/10/2023
Working with systems, on the computer, in nature, among people, in organizations, constantly reminds me of how incomplete my mental models are, how complex the world is, and how much I don’t know.
— Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems
09/09/2023
Heisenberg stressed that the laws of nature are no longer dealt with elementary particles, but with our knowledge of these particles – that is, with the contents of our minds.
— Douglas R Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett, The Mind’s I
09/08/2023
Fetishizing the novelty of the problem (or at least its “framing”) deprives the public of the analytic tools it has previously brought to bear on similar problems.
— Adrian Daub, What Tech Calls Thinking
09/07/2023
The job of QA is not to find all the bugs; that’s the programmers’ job. The job of QA is to specify the system behavior in terms of tests with sufficient detail that defects are excluded from the final system.
— Robert C. Martin, Clean Craftsmanship
09/06/2023
When agriculture and industry came along people could increasingly rely on the skills of others for survival, and new ‘niches for imbeciles’ were opened up.
— Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens
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