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.
03/02/2022
to philosophise is to learn how to die
— Michel de Montaigne, William Carew Hazlitt, and Charles Cotton, The Complete Essays of Michel de Montaigne
03/01/2022
The latest fashion in dictatorship has been called the competitive, electoral, kleptocratic, statist, or patronal authoritarian regime.
— Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now
02/28/2022
As Thomas Hobbes observed in the 17th century, life under mob rule is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. Life on a poorly run software project is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and hardly ever short enough.
— Steve McConnell, Software Project Survival Guide
02/27/2022
Early Egyptologists were genuinely shocked to find no trace whatsoever of Hebrew tribes having ever been in Egypt—they weren’t expecting to find a record of the Ten Plagues, but they expected to find something.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Map and Territory
02/26/2022
Today, in the flood of garbage, valuable publications must go under, because it is easier to find one worthwhile book among ten worthless than a thousand among a million. Moreover, the phenomenon of pseudo plagiarism becomes inevitable—the unintentional repetition of the ideas of others who are unknown.
— Stanislaw Lem, Seth Shostak, and Michael Kandel, His Master’s Voice
1970 post articles, 394 pages.