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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.

08/09/2023

The fact that academics tell us that good process is the best way to good product should be seen as what it is: the natural tendency of a non-goal-oriented group to focus on things of interest to themselves, not necessarily of usefulness to their more goal-focused colleagues.

— Robert L. Glass and Tom DeMarco, Software Creativity 2.0

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08/08/2023

Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman are as mythical as werewolves. By increasing the information we have about the various causes of the constraints that limit our current opportunities, he has increased our powers to avoid what we want to avoid, prevent what we want to prevent. Knowledge of the roles of our genes, and the genes of the other species around us, is not the enemy of human freedom, but one of its best friends.

— Daniel C. Dennett, Freedom Evolves

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