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.
08/17/2021
even toddlers know that rules should be followed but that they can be changed. These two capacities, capacities for love and law, for caring about others and following the rules, allow our characteristically human combination of moral depth and flexibility.
— Alison Gopnik, The Philosophical Baby
08/16/2021
Work in tech is almost always teamwork; it often doesn’t look nearly as cool as the things it can make happen; and in the end, if you take away the colorful bikes and the free burritos, it is a job like any other.
— Adrian Daub, What Tech Calls Thinking
08/15/2021
System archetypes are patterns of behavior of a system. Systems expressed by circles of causality have therefore similar structure. Identifying a system archetype and finding the leverage enables efficient changes in a system.
— The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge
08/14/2021
Yet even today, when few people believe that accidents or diseases have perpetrators, discussions of poverty consist mostly of arguments about whom to blame for it.
— Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now
08/13/2021
There are two best kinds of reorganizations: The one that solves a structural problem. The one that you don’t do.
— Will Larson, An Elegant Puzzle
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