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.
06/24/2023
The detailed blow-by-blow flow chart, however, is an obsolete nuisance, suitable only for initiating beginners into algorithmic thinking.
— Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month
06/23/2023
T. S. Eliot, a great admirer of the work, commented: “How much the work of logicians has done to make of English a language in which it is possible to think clearly and exactly on any subject. The Principia Mathematica are perhaps a greater contribution to our language than they are to mathematics.”
— Chris Bernhardt, Turing’s Vision
06/22/2023
…there is no way that Newton’s law—or any other law of physics—can be proved in the mathematical sense of the word.
— Eli Maor, E
06/21/2023
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better. —WENDELL PHILLIPS…
— Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is the Way
06/20/2023
Two people who believe in two different causal diagrams can analyze the same data and may never come to the same conclusion, regardless of how “big” the data are.
— Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie, The Book of Why
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