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.
06/01/2021
Every person whose life is touched by software development has equal value as a human being. No one is intrinsically worth more than anyone else. For software development to simultaneously improve in humanity and productivity, the contributions of each person on the team need to be respected. I am important and so are you.
— Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres, Extreme Programming Explained
05/31/2021
If you want to advance the state of the art, by all means, do it. But don’t expect to do it rapidly!
— Steve McConnell, Rapid Development
05/30/2021
More Christians were killed by fellow Christians in those twenty-four hours (St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre) than by the polytheistic Roman Empire throughout its entire existence.
— Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens
05/29/2021
Leibniz’s 17th-century breakthroughs led to an 18th-century golden age of symbol pushing, which led to a 19th-century backlash obsessed with axiomatization and rigor, which led to 20th-century work on formal systems and computability, which led to the 21st-century laptop…
— Ben Orlin, Change Is the Only Constant
05/28/2021
The smallest prime is 2—the only even prime number. The largest, as this book goes to press, is 2^2,976,221 − 1, an 895,932-digit number discovered by Gordon Spence in December 1997 on a home computer, using a program downloaded over the internet; if printed, it would fill a 450-page book.
— Eli Maor, E
1911 post articles, 383 pages.