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.
10/31/2021
There is one particular attitude that will surely ruin a framework. Don’t write frameworks for dummies…
— Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design
10/30/2021
…you can’t really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang ’em back. If the facts don’t hang together on a latticework of theory, you don’t have them in a usable form.
— Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann, Super Thinking
10/29/2021
The quickest way to get from a high floor to the street is to jump out a window, but our “faith” in the laws of gravity and the fragility of our bodies make this an irrational act for anyone who cares to stay alive. On the other hand, an atheist gets along quite well, thank you, without believing in God. It only obscures the nature of faith to liken it to the inescapable necessity of believing in causal laws.
— Martin Gardner, The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener
10/28/2021
My lifetime motto is that mathematicians think in (well, precisely defined and mapped) objects and relations, jurists and legal thinkers in constructs, logicians in maximally abstract operators, and…fools in words.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game
10/27/2021
I encounter people who very definitely believe in evolution, who sneer at the folly of creationists. And yet they have no idea of what the theory of evolutionary biology permits and prohibits.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Map and Territory
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