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.
04/17/2021
It’s programming if ‘clever’ is a compliment, but it’s software engineering if ‘clever’ is an accusation.
— Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, and Hyrum Wright, Software Engineering at Google
04/16/2021
By definition, what works cannot be irrational; about every single person I know who has chronically failed in business shares that mental block, the failure to realize that if something stupid works (and makes money), it cannot be stupid.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game
04/15/2021
Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible, changeable, can have no fixed morality.
— Stanislaw Lem, Seth Shostak, and Michael Kandel, His Master’s Voice
04/14/2021
…the term bug was popularized by American computer scientist Grace Hopper in 1947 when an error in the Harvard Mark II computer was traced to a moth trapped in a relay.
— Jonathan E. Steinhart, The Secret Life of Programs
04/13/2021
No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.
— Peter Singer, Ethics in the Real World
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