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.
11/06/2021
Learning is limited by an organization’s ability to keep its people.
— Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister, Peopleware
11/05/2021
…perhaps happiness is synchronising one’s personal delusions of meaning with the prevailing collective delusions.
— Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens
11/04/2021
Thoreau provides us with a kind of comforting perspective on loneliness, by pointing out that no matter how hard we try there will always be a chasm of consciousness between me and another person.
— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now
11/03/2021
Postcolonial Theory establishes much of its claim to importance by assuming there must be permanent problems that have been handed down to us through language constructed centuries ago.
— Helen Pluckrose and James A. Lindsay, Cynical Theories
11/02/2021
…postmodernist critics of science often grossly fail to understand the empirical claims of science and the ways in which its key theoretical terms work, and often subsitute for them, when they apply scientific modes of thought to the political world, a number of tendentiously vague and misleading metaphors.
— Christopher Butler, Postmodernism
1974 post articles, 395 pages.