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.
03/02/2024
If just one or two engineers are getting something wrong, adding to everyone’s mental load by creating new rules doesn’t scale.
— Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, and Hyrum Wright, Software Engineering at Google
03/01/2024
Many of the dramas of human social life—the sagas of sympathy, trust, favor, debt, revenge, gratitude, guilt, shame, treachery, gossip, reputation—may be understood as the playing of strategies in an iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma.
— Steven Pinker, Rationality
02/29/2024
Teaching a company to value something it doesn’t care about is the hardest sort of work you can do, and it often fails, so you should do as little of it as you can, but no less.
— Will Larson and Tanya Reilly, Staff Engineer
02/28/2024
Simple does not mean easy. Simple means untangled, and untangling things is hard.
— Robert C. Martin, Clean Craftsmanship
02/27/2024
People want the chance to do what they naturally do best every day. Because weaknesses never turn into strengths, but strengths develop continually with practice.
— Gallup.com, How to Create a Strengths- Based Company Culture
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