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.
06/16/2022
…historical narratives … are verbal fictions, the contents of which are as much invented as found and the forms of which have more in common with their counterparts in literature than they have with those in the sciences.
— Hayden White, Tropics of Discourse
06/15/2022
It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.
— Blaise Pascal and A. J. Krailsheimer, Pensées
06/14/2022
How did hunter-gatherers maintain their egalitarian lifestyle for millennia when young modern democracies seem to be falling apart all around the globe? The answer: it is in their genes.
— Andreas Hofer and Adrienn Raczi, Born Different
06/13/2022
MEANINGFUL TECHNOLOGY CHANGE IN A very large organization is very rarely just about the technology. It’s about people, it’s about leadership, and it’s about creating a culture that encourages safe-to-fail experiments and smart risk taking instead of creating fear among those who are expected to move the organization forward.
— Stephen Orban, Ahead in the Cloud
06/12/2022
Any time you do a calculation using a representation of an irrational number, you’re doing an approximate calculation, and you can only get an approximate answer.
— Mark C. Chu-Carroll, Good Math
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