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.
07/08/2021
“Normal,” as Carl Jung said, “is the ideal aspiration of the unsuccessful.”
— Grayson Perry, The Descent of Man
07/07/2021
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
07/06/2021
…experts are more interested in what they did wrong—so they can fix it—than what they did right.
— Angela Duckworth, Grit
07/05/2021
The people who set the schedule, not just the ones who failed to meet it, need to be held accountable.
— Tom DeMarco, Slack
07/04/2021
Apple is quoted as saying, “We’re at Level I [on the Capability Maturity Model] and will always be.”
— Frederick P. Jr. Brooks, The Design of Design
1968 post articles, 394 pages.