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.
12/19/2020
The pleasurable act of dreaming seems to let us fulfill our wishes in our minds, sapping our energy to perform the hard work of meeting the challenges in real life.
— Gabrielle Oettingen, Rethinking Positive Thinking
12/18/2020
it is precisely because we tell our children what to value—money, value for money, status, beauty, power, etc.—that they learn to lose sight of what makes them truly happy.
— Raj Raghunathan, If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Happy?
12/17/2020
Wer Ordnung hält, ist nur zu faul zum Suchen. (If you keep things tidily ordered, you’re just too lazy to go searching.) German proverb…
— Martin Kleppmann, Designing Data-Intensive Applications
12/16/2020
…experiments comparing the effects of genuine drugs as compared to those of sugar pills show that between 60 percent and 90 percent of drugs depend, to some extent, on the placebo effect for their effectiveness.
— Richard Wiseman, 59 Seconds
12/15/2020
…it is success in the absence of sufficient power that defines leadership.
— Tom DeMarco, Slack
2002 post articles, 401 pages.