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.
01/22/2021
…keeping the code simple is usually the key to correctness.
— Jon Bentley, Programming Pearls
01/21/2021
Gallup research shows that only 13 percent of employees worldwide are actively engaged at work, and more than twice that number are so disengaged they are likely to spread negativity to others.
— Jim Whitehurst and Gary Hamel, The Open Organization
01/20/2021
Since people define themselves—in part at least—by what they do professionally, changing what they do gets deep into the matter of personal definition.
— Tom DeMarco, Slack
01/19/2021
The trick in life (and risk management) is to have as much respect for experience before one acquires said experience as one would after.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes
01/18/2021
…anything real enough to quantify reality from the outside is already included in reality and therefore on the inside! Since this is a logical contradiction, the idea that reality can be externally evaluated is logically invalid.
— Christopher Michael Langan, The Art of Knowing
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