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.
07/04/2022
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
07/01/2022
My impression is that we have seen, for perhaps a hundred and fifty years, a gradual increase in language that is either meaningless or destructive of meaning. And I believe that this increasing unreliability of language parallels the increasing disintegration, over the same period, of persons and communities.
— Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems
06/30/2022
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. Insofar as mathematics is about reality, it is not certain, and insofar as it is certain, it is not about reality. (Albert Einstein)
— Haim Shapira, Eight Lessons on Infinity
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