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.
09/23/2022
There is only one generic way to protect your system from failing as a whole when a part fails: distribute and compartmentalize.
— Jamie Allen, Reactive Design Patterns
09/22/2022
An important property of teams is that they abstract the complexities of the individuals that compose them. Teams with fewer than four individuals are a sufficiently leaky abstraction that they function indistinguishably from individuals.
— Will Larson, An Elegant Puzzle
09/21/2022
Published collections of successful models can be helpful, as discussed in Chapter 11, but we shouldn’t get sidetracked trying to reduce domain modeling to a cookbook or a toolkit. Modeling and design call for creativity.
— Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design
09/20/2022
If a phrase comes to you easily, look at it with deep suspicion; it’s probably one of the countless clichés…
— William Zinsser, On Writing Well
09/19/2022
Software development is neither a scientific nor an engineering task. It is an act of reality construction that is political and artistic.
— David West, Object Thinking
1970 post articles, 394 pages.