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.
10/22/2021
Every statistic encodes a vision of the world it seeks to measure.
— Ben Orlin, Math With Bad Drawings
10/21/2021
Knowing things is not the same as understanding them. Comprehension is not the same thing as analysis. Expertise is a not a parlor game played with factoids.
— Tom Nichols, The Death of Expertise
10/20/2021
A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes
10/19/2021
The better that you understand the most fundamental level of your field, the easier it will be to learn the next level.
— Max Kanat-Alexander, Understanding Software
10/18/2021
Development is always done by people; clients and users are people; and under strict genetic testing most managers can be shown to share at least 50% of their genetic code with homo montipythonus.
— Andy Hunt, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
2024 post articles, 405 pages.