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.
04/28/2023
The world has far too much morality. If you added up all the homicides committed in pursuit of self-help justice, the casualties of religious and revolutionary wars, the people executed for victimless crimes and misdemeanors, and the targets of ideological genocides, they would surely outnumber the fatalities from amoral predation and conquest.
— Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature
04/27/2023
Even in a world where everything seems to have been done before, it is still possible to make objects that stand out in a crowd. To create anything that is easily identifiable as yours, all you have to do is let your own sense of balance and proportion, along with your own quirky way of doing things, come through into your work.
— Richard Raffan, The Art of Turned Bowls
04/26/2023
Essentially stupid people are dangerous and damaging because reasonable people find it difficult to imagine and understand unreasonable behavior.
— Corinne Purtill, The Five Universal Laws of Human Stupidity
04/25/2023
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
— Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
04/24/2023
Efficiency stems more from good design than from good coding.
— Robert L. Glass, Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
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