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.
10/08/2023
Religion isn’t so much about telling man that there is one God as about preventing man from thinking that he is God.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes
10/07/2023
Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
10/06/2023
I asked a friend, whose code I admire, if he had any recommendations to demonstrate the importance of cohesion, and he recommended the Sesame Street YouTube video, “One of these things is not like another.”
— David Farley, Modern Software Engineering
10/05/2023
…one study of large internet services found that configuration errors by operators were the leading cause of outages, whereas hardware faults (servers or network) played a role in only 10–25% of…
— Martin Kleppmann, Designing Data-Intensive Applications
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
1970 post articles, 394 pages.