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.
03/13/2022
In Orthodox Judaism there is a saying: “The previous generation is to the next one as angels are to men; the next generation is to the previous one as donkeys are to men.”
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, How to Actually Change Your Mind
03/12/2022
…programming languages are not just technology, but what programmers think in. They’re half technology and half religion.
— Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters
03/11/2022
Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.
— William Zinsser, On Writing Well
03/10/2022
Those who are governed by reason desire nothing for themselves which they do not also desire for the rest of humankind.
— Benedictus de Spinoza, A Spinoza Reader
03/09/2022
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
— James W. Grenning, Test Driven Development for Embedded C
2011 post articles, 403 pages.