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.
07/06/2021
…experts are more interested in what they did wrong—so they can fix it—than what they did right.
— Angela Duckworth, Grit
07/05/2021
The people who set the schedule, not just the ones who failed to meet it, need to be held accountable.
— Tom DeMarco, Slack
07/04/2021
Apple is quoted as saying, “We’re at Level I [on the Capability Maturity Model] and will always be.”
— Frederick P. Jr. Brooks, The Design of Design
07/03/2021
If you hop on board a train going almost this fast and fire a gun out the window, the fundamental units of length change around, so it looks to you like the bullet is speeding ahead of you, but other people see something different.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, How to Actually Change Your Mind
07/02/2021
…they spent hundreds of millions of dollars hiring developers and investing in rolling out Agile. But they did so without realizing their real problem: technical debt in the form of an architecture where developers could not be productive.
— Gene Kim, The Unicorn Project
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