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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.

04/21/2025

I’ve never liked the term “computer science.” The main reason I don’t like it is that there’s no such thing. Computer science is a grab bag of tenuously related areas thrown together by an accident of history…

— Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters

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04/19/2025

…the qualities that make somebody a well-functioning human being and the qualities that make somebody a really good programmer—they overlap but they don’t overlap a whole heck of a lot.

— Peter Seibel, Coders at Work

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04/17/2025

…in a field as complex and young as computing and data processing, there is massive ignorance and therefore massive ambiguity in doing our job. We really don’t know a best way to build software; it is unlikely we are going to find such a way in the near future.

— Robert L. Glass and Tom DeMarco, Software Creativity 2.0

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