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.
08/18/2023
The prevailing feeling is that too many opportunities are opening too quickly and that our ability to modify genes is outpacing our capacity for making wise and farsighted use of the skill.
— Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens
08/17/2023
But he knows that his freedom from company clocks doesn’t stem from corporate altruism. “They don’t want us to know how many hours we work. If we did, they’d have to pay us a lot more….
— Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine
08/16/2023
It is easy to become captive to words, to treat them as though they truly and fully convey genuine knowledge—as though they are real cash money, legal tender, accepted everywhere at their face value, rather than mere counters.
— Alan Jacobs, How to Think
08/15/2023
Superior tools only prolong the life of inferior languages.
— Gerald Weinberg, The Psychology of Computer Programming
08/14/2023
Left to their own devices, software engineers will proliferate tools, ignoring feature overlaps for the sake of that one thing tool X does better than tool Y that is relevant only in that specific situation.
— Marianne Bellotti, Kill It With Fire
1974 post articles, 395 pages.