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.
07/09/2022
Even if I’m doing XYZ wrong, it doesn’t help you, or exempt you from the rules; it just means we’re both screwed.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, How to Actually Change Your Mind
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
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