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.
09/09/2023
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
09/05/2023
If there is no best design solution, then that Extreme Programming simple solution is likely to be as successful as any other…
— Robert L. Glass, Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
1911 post articles, 383 pages.