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.
07/08/2022
Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.
— Stephen Orban, Ahead in the Cloud
07/07/2022
As Tony Hoare observed: There are two ways of constructing a software design: one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
— Kevlin Henney, 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
07/06/2022
The major enemy of reason in the public sphere today—which is not ignorance, innumeracy, or cognitive biases, but politicization—appears to be on an upswing.
— Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now
07/05/2022
If you want to drive motivation to less than zero, try soliciting the team’s input to whitewash a decision after you’ve already made it.
— Steve McConnell, Rapid Development
07/04/2022
The fact that, for example, the link between smoking and lung cancer was first discovered by Nazi doctors (Proctor, 2000) doesn’t mean we should tell people that smoking is healthy after all.
— Stuart Ritchie, Intelligence
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