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.
07/03/2021
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
07/01/2021
The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton, The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
06/30/2021
Technical quality is a long-term game. There’s no such thing as winning, only learning and earning the chance to keep playing.
— Will Larson and Tanya Reilly, Staff Engineer
06/29/2021
…the creative nature of software development requires that people take risks and occasionally fail; for people to accept that failure, a healthy team environment must exist.
— Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, and Hyrum Wright, Software Engineering at Google
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