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.
07/10/2025
Applications create possibilities for millions of credulous users, whereas OSes impose limitations on thousands of grumpy coders, and so OS-makers will forever be on the shit-list of anyone who counts for anything in the high-tech world.
— Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning…Was the Command Line
07/09/2025
Destroying the passions and desires merely in order to avoid their stupidity and the disagreeable consequences of their stupidity seems to us nowadays to be itself simply an acute form of stupidity.
— Alain De Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy
07/08/2025
The true humility required of a developer is the willingness to remove their identity from the user’s world.
— Max Kanat-Alexander, Understanding Software
07/07/2025
I’d been groomed by society to see math as a way of drawing a circle and putting myself in it, believing that math was a showcase for flaunting talent rather than a playground for building virtue.
— Francis Su, Mathematics for Human Flourishing
07/06/2025
…professional means unsurprising. You will be considered professional to the extent you look, act, and think like everyone else, a perfect drone.
— Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister, Peopleware
1911 post articles, 383 pages.