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.
03/04/2022
…people fail to realize that the principal thing you can learn from a professor is how to be a professor
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game
03/03/2022
…it is an empirical fact that local search algorithms are the top performers on a broad range of optimization problems.
— Sanjoy Dasgupta, Christos Papadimitriou, and Umesh Vazirani, Algorithms
03/02/2022
to philosophise is to learn how to die
— Michel de Montaigne, William Carew Hazlitt, and Charles Cotton, The Complete Essays of Michel de Montaigne
03/01/2022
The latest fashion in dictatorship has been called the competitive, electoral, kleptocratic, statist, or patronal authoritarian regime.
— Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now
02/28/2022
As Thomas Hobbes observed in the 17th century, life under mob rule is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. Life on a poorly run software project is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and hardly ever short enough.
— Steve McConnell, Software Project Survival Guide
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