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.
04/17/2023
What precisely is an elder, then? An elder is a man who takes your soul and your will into his soul and his will.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov
04/16/2023
…the fundamentally intractable problem of any democratic order is, precisely, authority.
— Alan Jacobs, How to Think
04/15/2023
…you shouldn’t hire managers who want to reorg because they read a blog post that said engineering teams work better when structured this particular way or that particular way.
— Marianne Bellotti, Kill It With Fire
04/14/2023
When you beat up someone physically, you get exercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes
04/13/2023
Research has shown that we automatically assign to good-looking individuals such favorable traits as talent, kindness, honesty, and intelligence (for a review of this evidence, see Eagly, Ashmore, Makhijani, and Longo, 1991). Furthermore, we make these judgments without being aware that physical attractiveness plays a role in the process.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, How to Actually Change Your Mind
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