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.
02/17/2023
Directing an entire organization is hard. Seeming to direct it, on the other hand, is easy. All you have to do is note which way the drift is moving and instruct the organization to go that way.
— Tom DeMarco, Slack
02/16/2023
I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better — cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?
— Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
02/15/2023
What does “scarce” mean? It means that what everybody wants adds up to more than there is.
— Thomas Sowell, Basic Economics
02/14/2023
Bill Gates admitted: “It’s a little scary that as computer technology has moved ahead there’s never been a leader from one era who was also a leader in the next. Microsoft has been a leader in the PC era.”
— Michio Kaku, Visions
02/13/2023
we are all divorced from life, we are all cripples, every one of us, more or less. We are so divorced from it that we feel at once a sort of loathing for real life, and so cannot bear to be reminded of it. Why, we have come almost to looking upon real life as an effort, almost as hard work, and we are all privately agreed that it is better in books. And why do we fuss and fume sometimes? Why are we perverse and ask for something else? We don’t know what ourselves. It would be the worse for us if our petulant prayers were answered.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground
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