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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.

07/23/2025

1952, the Univac was at work processing the 1950 census with a complex program developed by about eight programmers. Other machines were doing chemical dynamics, neutron diffusion calculations, missile performance calculations, etc. Assemblers, relocating linkers and loaders, floating-point interpretive systems, etc. were in routine use. By 1955 people were building 50 to 100 man-year business programs. By 1956 General Electric had in operation a payroll system in its Louisville appliance plant with more than 80,000 words of program. By 1957, the SAGE ANFSQ/7 air defense computer had been running two years, and a 75,000 instruction communications-based, fail-safe-duplexed real-time system was in operation in 30 sites.

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month

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07/22/2025

Our current technology is not close to the information processing power of a single human brain. Skynet is not going to wake up. AIs are not going to solve world hunger. LLMs are not going to take all our jobs away. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t useful.

— Robert C. Martin, We, Programmers

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