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.
06/04/2025
Human beings don’t learn things very well in the abstract. As the research on transfer demonstrates, most people learn abstract, general rules only after being exposed to many concrete examples.
— Scott Young, Ultralearning
06/03/2025
Developers want changes because they have a great emotional and intellectual investment in all of the system’s details.
— Steve McConnell, Rapid Development
06/02/2025
The mind is its own place and, in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
— John Milton, Paradise Lost
06/01/2025
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance & Other Essays
1970 post articles, 394 pages.