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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.

09/01/2021

No product of agriculture is the slightest bit natural to an ecologist! You take a nice complex ecosystem, chop it into rectangles, clear it to the ground, and hammer it into perpetual early succession! You bust its sod, flatten it flat, and drench it with vast quantities of constant water! Then you populate it with uniform monocrops of profoundly damaged plants incapable of living on their own! Every food plant is a pathetic narrow specialist in one skill, inbred for thousands of years to a state of genetic idiocy! Those plants are so fragile, they had to domesticate humans just to take endless care of them!

— Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now

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08/28/2021

The life of the worlds is a roaring river, but Earth’s is a pond and a backwater. The sign of doom is written on your brows - how long will ye kick against the pin-pricks? But there is one conquest and one crown, one redemption and one solution. Know yourselves - be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.

— Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah

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