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.
04/15/2023
…you shouldn’t hire managers who want to reorg because they read a blog post that said engineering teams work better when structured this particular way or that particular way.
— Marianne Bellotti, Kill It With Fire
04/14/2023
When you beat up someone physically, you get exercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes
04/13/2023
Research has shown that we automatically assign to good-looking individuals such favorable traits as talent, kindness, honesty, and intelligence (for a review of this evidence, see Eagly, Ashmore, Makhijani, and Longo, 1991). Furthermore, we make these judgments without being aware that physical attractiveness plays a role in the process.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, How to Actually Change Your Mind
04/12/2023
We abase providence too much by ascribing our own notions to it, being vexed that we can’t understand it. But, again, if it’s impossible to understand it, then, I repeat, it is hard to have to answer for something it is not given to man to understand. And if so, how are they going to judge me for being unable to understand the true will and laws of providence?
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
04/11/2023
…that is, that man everywhere and at all times, whoever he may be, has preferred to act as he chose and not in the least as his reason and advantage dictated. And one may choose what is contrary to one’s own interests, and sometimes one POSITIVELY OUGHT…
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes From the Underground
1899 post articles, 380 pages.