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.
06/28/2020
We infuse messages with meaning automatically, fooling ourselves to believe that the meaning of a message is carried in the message. But it is not. This is only an illusion. Meaning is derived from context and prior knowledge.
— Cesar Hidalgo, Why Information Grows
06/27/2020
Yes, numbers can deceive. But so can words—not to mention pictures, hand gestures, hip-hop musicals, and fundraising emails. Our moral system blames the liar, not the medium chosen for the lie.
— Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings
06/26/2020
No matter what you call it – game theory, postmodernism or memetics – the dynamics of history are not directed towards enhancing human well-being.
— Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens
06/25/2020
Mathematicians do not like things which work only in base-10; it is only because we have ten fingers that we find that system interesting at all. Mathematics is the search for universal, not base-specific, truth.
— Matt Parker, Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension
06/24/2020
In other words, after the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics
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