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.
07/06/2022
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
07/03/2022
The idea that everything in the world has meaning is, after all, precisely analogous to the principle that everything has a cause, on which the whole of science rests.
— George Dyson, Turing’s Cathedral
07/02/2022
…your potential ability to write good software is limited only by your ability to conceive of helping another.
— Max Kanat-Alexander, Code Simplicity
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