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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.

06/15/2022

It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

— Blaise Pascal and A. J. Krailsheimer, Pensées

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06/13/2022

MEANINGFUL TECHNOLOGY CHANGE IN A very large organization is very rarely just about the technology. It’s about people, it’s about leadership, and it’s about creating a culture that encourages safe-to-fail experiments and smart risk taking instead of creating fear among those who are expected to move the organization forward.

— Stephen Orban, Ahead in the Cloud

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06/12/2022

Any time you do a calculation using a representation of an irrational number, you’re doing an approximate calculation, and you can only get an approximate answer.

— Mark C. Chu-Carroll, Good Math

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