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.
02/05/2023
Great leaders leverage influence and relationships over title and position.
— Clay Scroggins, How to Lead When You’re Not in Charge
02/04/2023
In Modern Orthodox Judaism I have not heard much emphasis of the virtues of blind faith. You’re allowed to doubt. You’re just not allowed to successfully doubt.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, How to Actually Change Your Mind
02/02/2023
…if I had lived before on the moon or on Mars and there had committed the most disgraceful and dishonourable action and had there been put to such shame and ignominy as one can only conceive and realise in dreams, in nightmares, and if, finding myself afterwards on earth, I were able to retain the memory of what I had done on the other planet and at the same time knew that I should never, under any circumstances, return there, then looking from the earth to the moon — should I care or not?
— Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
02/01/2023
what has been proven is that in any system of mathematics where you can do basic arithmetic there will always be true statements that are impossible to prove.
— Veritasium, Math’s Fundamental Flaw
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