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.
03/10/2023
My emphasis on language also comes from a deep conviction that language shapes our thoughts. You cannot answer a question that you cannot ask, and you cannot ask a question that you have no words for.
— Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie, The Book of Why
03/09/2023
Psychologically, we have come to rely so heavily on the elaborate and complicated products of cultural evolution for our survival that we now often put greater faith in what we learn from our communities than in our own personal experiences or innate intuitions.
— Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success
03/08/2023
Morgenstern found Princeton to be much as Einstein had described it five years earlier; ‘a quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts’.
— Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man From the Future
03/07/2023
Whatever lofty happiness man in his earthen bonds names with the names of the gods: the harmony of faith, that does not waver, of friendship, that knows no doubts; the light, that to the wise comes only in lonely thoughts, and for the poets burns only in lovely images. All that did I—in my best hours— Discover in her, and found there for myself. —GOETHE, “FÜR EWIG” (FOR ETERNITY)
— Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought
03/06/2023
At the end of the day, even the magic of machine translation is like Facebook, a way of taking free contributions from people and regurgitating them as bait for advertisers or others who hope to take advantage of being close to a top server.
— Jaron Lanier, Who Owns the Future?
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