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.
12/07/2022
Elysium is a myth. One does not overcome an obstacle to enter the land of no obstacles.
— Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is the Way
12/06/2022
When we earn the admiration of others honestly by being respectable, honorable, blameless, generous, and kind, the end result is true happiness.
— Russ Roberts, How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
12/05/2022
It’s common for a startup to be developing a genuinely good product, take slightly too long to do it, run out of money, and have to shut down.
— Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters
12/04/2022
Mark Zuckerberg is on record saying, “I probably learned more coding from random side projects that I did than the courses I took in college.”
— Adrian Daub, What Tech Calls Thinking
12/03/2022
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the great documenter of the slave-labour-camp horrors of the latter, once wrote that the “pitiful ideology” holding that “human beings are created for happiness” was an ideology “done in by the first blow of the work assigner’s cudgel.
— Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life
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