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.
08/13/2021
There are two best kinds of reorganizations: The one that solves a structural problem. The one that you don’t do.
— Will Larson, An Elegant Puzzle
08/12/2021
Scientific inquiry is the finest example of how individuals who accept certain practices can work to surpass their individual limitations.
— Paul Bloom, Against Empathy
08/11/2021
If a statement is false, that’s the worst thing you can say about it. You don’t need to say that it’s heretical.
— Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters
08/10/2021
…because of the dynamic equilibrium of the software development ecosystem, predictability has expired. Enterprise architects may still make plans, but they may be invalidated at any moment.
— Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, and Patrick Kua, Building Evolutionary Architectures
08/09/2021
That’s my gripe with Quality Programs. They focus on one easy and actionable aspect of quality and ignore everything else. They concentrate on something that is almost incidental to real quality and ignore what really matters.
— Tom DeMarco, Slack
1919 post articles, 384 pages.