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.
03/06/2023
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?
03/05/2023
…rational beliefs are contagious, among honest folk who believe each other to be honest. And it’s why a claim that your beliefs are not contagious—that you believe for private reasons which are not transmissible—is so suspicious.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Map and Territory
03/04/2023
Failure is predictable because so many software engineers think the conversations about modernizing legacy technology are not relevant to their careers.
— Marianne Bellotti, Kill It With Fire
03/03/2023
Consumerism has worked very hard, with the help of popular psychology (‘Just do it!’) to convince people that indulgence is good for you, whereas frugality is self-oppression.
— Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens
03/02/2023
A lack of focus on a shared language and knowledge of the problem domain results in a codebase that works but does not reveal the intent of the business.
— Scott Millett and Nick Tune, Patterns, Principles, and Practices of Domain-Driven Design
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