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.
06/21/2022
In teaching programming and software engineering over the last thirty years, I’ve become increasingly convinced that the determinant of success when you’re developing software isn’t whether you use the latest programming languages and tools, or the management process you follow (agile or otherwise), or even how you structure the code. It’s simply whether you know what you are trying to do.
— Daniel Jackson, The Essence of Software
06/20/2022
The Conspiracy has proved that you can have “high intelligence” but still not be able to think.
— Subgenius Foundation, Book of the Subgenius
06/19/2022
If you look at forces that improved products like socks, sweaters, and Twinkies,the engine that drives that system is economics. It’s economics that breaks down for software so that it remains indefinitely in its present primitive stage of evolution.
— Federico Biancuzzi, Masterminds of Programming
06/18/2022
If you are a good leader, Who talks little, They will say, When your work is done, And your aim fulfilled, “We did it ourselves.”
— Lao Tzu and Darrell D. Lau, Tao Te Ching
06/17/2022
It is important to note that the definition doesn’t mandate any specific framework, API, or feature. As long as you are continuously reading data from an unbounded dataset, doing something to it, and emitting output, you are doing stream processing.
— Neha Narkhede, Gwen Shapira, and Todd Palino, Kafka
1911 post articles, 383 pages.