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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.

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

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09/28/2023

The greatest risk with design patterns is over-application. Not every problem can be solved cleanly with an existing design pattern; don’t try to force a problem into a design pattern when a custom approach will be cleaner.

— John Ousterhout, A Philosophy of Software Design

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