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.
08/30/2021
Moral relativism is clearly an attempt to pay intellectual reparations for the crimes of Western colonialism, ethnocentrism, and racism.
— Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape
08/29/2021
…your software project operates along four important dimensions: people, process, product, and technology.
— Steve McConnell, Rapid Development
08/28/2021
The life of the worlds is a roaring river, but Earth’s is a pond and a backwater. The sign of doom is written on your brows - how long will ye kick against the pin-pricks? But there is one conquest and one crown, one redemption and one solution. Know yourselves - be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.
— Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah
08/27/2021
…action will almost always tell you more than analysis before the fact.
— Peter Hollins, Mental Models
08/26/2021
In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, many eat him. Now choose.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Assorted Opinions and Maxims
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