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.
06/05/2022
People can only be social friends if they don’t try to upstage or outsmart one another.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game
06/04/2022
If you think it’s simply enough to take advantage of the opportunities that arise in your life, you will fall short of greatness. Anyone sentient can do that. What you must do is learn how to press forward precisely when everyone around you sees disaster.
— Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is the Way
06/03/2022
The finite and limited character of human existence is more primordial than man himself
— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
06/02/2022
…a soapbox orator addresses a crowd on the glories of communism: “Come the revolution, everyone will eat strawberries and cream!” A man at the front whimpers, “But I don’t like strawberries and cream.” The speaker thunders, “Come the revolution, you will like strawberries and cream!”
— Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now
06/01/2022
I do not know if the IPv6 developers deliberately copied IPv4’s early design mistakes, or independently reinvented them.
— Michael Warren Lucas, Git Sync Murder
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