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.
07/28/2025
Error has no rights, but the man who errs has equal rights with him who errs not.
— Alan Jacobs, How to Think
07/27/2025
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.
— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
07/26/2025
…you need to have a goal in mind that transcends the profit motive. That’s the only way you’ll be able to attract the best and brightest talent.
— Jim Whitehurst and Gary Hamel, The Open Organization
07/25/2025
…every day we wake up and collectively make a world together; but which one of us, left to our own devices, would ever decide they wanted to make a world like this one?”
— David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs
07/24/2025
the assumption that any culture has a monopoly on moral truth or on clear moral thinking strikes me as somewhere between naïve and ludicrous.
— Michael-John Turp, Who’s to Say?
1934 post articles, 387 pages.