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.
10/12/2025
…there is no more reason to believe ideas are evolving towards some ultimate truth than there is to think that organisms are evolving towards some ultimate being.
— Philip Stokes, Philosophy 100 Essential Thinkers
10/11/2025
Zeus intended that man, notwithstanding the evils oppressing him, should continue to live and not rid himself of life, but keep on making himself miserable. For this purpose, he bestowed hope upon man: it is, in truth, the greatest of evils for it lengthens the ordeal of man
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
10/10/2025
Comparative analysis suggests there is a direct relation however between the level of violence employed in a bureaucratic system, and the level of absurdity and ignorance it is seen to produce.
— David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules
10/09/2025
The problem is that carbon emissions are a classic public goods game, also known as a Tragedy of the Commons. People benefit from everyone else’s sacrifices and suffer from their own, so everyone has an incentive to be a free rider and let everyone else make the sacrifice, and everyone suffers.
— Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now
10/08/2025
The TDD uncertainty principle: To the extent you demand certainty, your tests will be inflexible. To the extent you demand flexible tests, you will have diminished certainty.
— Robert C. Martin, Clean Craftsmanship
2015 post articles, 403 pages.