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.
11/26/2025
…the toll from these mass shootings equals about one-tenth of 1 percent of American homicides, a statistical nonevent. (That is, if you could wave a magic wand and end all mass shootings forever, nobody looking at the overall homicide rates would even notice.)
— Paul Bloom, Against Empathy
11/25/2025
“Know thyself!” There is nothing that so aids and assists the awakening of omniscience within us as insistent thoughts about one’s own transgressions, errors, mistakes.
— Roman Gelperin, On Rotting Prison Straw
11/24/2025
Information is always in flux, and it is always a work in progress. Since nothing is ever truly final, there is no need to wait to get started
— Tiago Forte, Building a Second Brain
11/23/2025
Trevor Blackwell, who adds, “The cost of writing software goes up more than linearly with its size.
— Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters
11/22/2025
If you put some effort into appearing normal, you can save yourself a lot of time, during which you can be what you want to be in peace.
— Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel, The Physics of Sorrow
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