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.
09/17/2020
Elizebeth Smith Friedman (1892–1980), used a similar technique to include a secret message on her husband’s tombstone. (https://elonka.com/friedman/FriedmanTombstone.pdf)
— Jonathan E. Steinhart, The Secret Life of Programs
09/16/2020
The rush to employ machine intelligence, however, mimics the “What can possibly go wrong?” philosophy that already pervades the computer security world.
— Jonathan E. Steinhart, The Secret Life of Programs
09/15/2020
…three critical differences between programming and software engineering: time, scale, and the trade-offs at play.
— Titus Winters, Tom Manschreck and Hyrum Wright, Software Engineering at Google
09/14/2020
We have repeatedly seen how analogies and mappings give rise to secondary meanings that ride on the backs of primary meanings. We have seen that even primary meanings depend on unspoken mappings, and so in the end, we have seen that all meaning is mapping-mediated, which is to say, all meaning comes from analogies.
— Douglas R. Hofstadter, I am a Strange Loop
09/13/2020
Essentially ail psychological tests—certainly including all the personality tests—assume that the psychologists who made the tests are smarter than the people who take them.
— Gerald Weinberg, The Phychology of Computer Programming
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