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.
02/11/2023
…it’s true that the world’s poor have gotten richer in part at the expense of the American lower middle class, and if I were an American politician I would not publicly say that the tradeoff was worth it. But as citizens of the world considering humanity as a whole, we have to say that the tradeoff is worth it.
— Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now
02/10/2023
Stanford University mathematician Keith Devlin puts it, the golden ratio as a definition for beauty really does seem to be “the myth that won’t go away.”
— Hannah Fry, The Mathematics of Love
02/09/2023
“That change completely thwarts our architecture.” I’ve got some news for you, sunshine. If a change to the requirements breaks your architecture, then your architecture sucks.
— Robert C. Martin, Clean Agile
02/08/2023
The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate. That is to say, when the individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner opposite, the world must perforce act out the conflict and be torn into opposing halves.
— Carl Jung, Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 9 (Part 2)
02/07/2023
Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavor to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
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