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.
06/25/2025
if we possess our why of life we can put up with almost any how
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
06/24/2025
For the first time in history, more people die today from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals combined.
— Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus
06/23/2025
…our mad rush toward the new, we tend to discard much of the old. (For example, software’s newest and most popular methodologies, like Extreme and Agile, tend to make a point of rejecting the accumulated wisdom of the older methodologies.)
— Robert L. Glass, Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
06/22/2025
As a rule of thumb, I estimate that a programming product costs at least three times as much as a debugged program with the same function.
— Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month
06/21/2025
…there’s a hard way to get grit and an easy way. The hard way is to do it by yourself. The easy way is to use conformity—the basic human drive to fit in—because if you’re around a lot of people who are gritty, you’re going to act grittier.”
— Angela Duckworth, Grit
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