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.
08/22/2025
Waste not your life in a world devoid of taste, which contains God but not the Devil
— Payam-e-Mashriq, Paradise
08/21/2025
Stay interested in life, whoever you are, for that is the best that you can reasonably hope for from it – even while you know that, ultimately speaking, life is not interested in you…
— Grant Bartley, The Last Thought
08/20/2025
A developer who can’t discuss modularity and information hiding is like a basketball player who can’t dribble.
— Steve McConnell, Rapid Development
08/19/2025
…the views of the socialists. Their views are well known: crime is a protest against the abnormality of the social order—that alone and nothing more, no other causes are admitted—nothing!…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
08/18/2025
…what we think of today as essential programming work will be seen tomorrow as inessential housekeeping.
— Gerald Weinberg, The Psychology of Computer Programming
1954 post articles, 391 pages.