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.
10/04/2023
…as a source of organic order, a master plan is both too precise, and not precise enough. The totality is too precise: the details are not precise enough.
— Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design
10/03/2023
“I dropped out of graduate school because postmodernism was then coming into academia,” Craig explained to me, “and it didn’t seem worthwhile to go through all of the hard work of science and present all the evidence, just to have it dismissed by [someone] saying, ‘Well, that’s just your narrative.’”
— Alice Dreger, Galileo’s Middle Finger
10/02/2023
…for the best programming at the least cost, give the best possible programmers you can find sufficient time so you need the smallest number of them.
— Gerald Weinberg, The Psychology of Computer Programming
10/01/2023
When a process expert can tell me how to work, but doesn’t share in that work or its consequences, authority and responsibility are misaligned.
— Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres, Extreme Programming Explained
09/30/2023
Bureaucracy was invented to maximize control, coordination, and consistency—things that are essential to reliability and efficiency but aren’t the hallmarks of online communities and open innovation projects.
— Jim Whitehurst and Gary Hamel, The Open Organization
1896 post articles, 380 pages.