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.
04/28/2022
…if you already believe in free will, then you should want to know as much as possible about how it works, and if you don’t, then you have no choice but to resign yourself to your fate and read up on it anyway.
— Christopher Michael Langan and Chris Langan, The Art of Knowing
04/27/2022
Probably an actual majority of the people who believe in evolution use the phrase “because of evolution” because they want to be part of the scientific in-crowd—belief as scientific attire, like wearing a lab coat.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Map and Territory
04/26/2022
…the complaint that some very successful apps are “bloated” fails to recognize that while it may be true that only 20% of an app’s functionality is essential, that 20% may be different for different users.
— Daniel Jackson, The Essence of Software
04/25/2022
Happy people live in the present; those with meaningful lives have a narrative about their past and a plan for the future.
— Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now
04/24/2022
Bad visions treat technical sophistication as a self-justifying raison d’être–a view that is never shared by your company’s leadership.
— Will Larson and Tanya Reilly, Staff Engineer
2002 post articles, 401 pages.