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.
04/21/2025
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
04/20/2025
Marx is the prophet, Marcuse is his interpreter, and Mao is the sword.
— Stephen R. C. Hicks, Explaining Postmodernism
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
04/18/2025
W. Edwards Deming once observed, ‘a bad system will beat a good person every time.’
— Gene Kim, The Unicorn Project
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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