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.
07/15/2020
Commercial OSes have to adopt the same official stance toward errors as Communist countries had toward poverty. For doctrinal reasons it was not possible to admit that poverty was a serious problem in Communist countries, because the whole point of Communism was to eradicate poverty.
— Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning…was the Command Line
07/14/2020
With microservice architecture, an application can easily be scaled both horizontally and vertically, developer productivity and velocity increase dramatically, and old technologies can easily be swapped out for the newest ones.
— Susan J. Fowler Production-Ready Microservices
07/13/2020
Cisco Systems estimates that approximately 12.1 billion Internet connected devices were in use in April 2014, and the figure is expected to zoom to above 50 billion by 2020.
— Samuel Greengard, The Internet of Things
07/12/2020
…this passage through Chaos is absolutely necessary, and it can’t be shortcut.
— Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister, Peopleware
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