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.
09/16/2024
…in most circumstances, if you bring together a crowd of people, that crowd will, as a group, behave less intelligently, and less creatively, than any single member of the crowd is likely to do if on their own.
— David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules
09/15/2024
A solution that involves a eureka moment is generally very difficult, if not impossible, to derive systematically through a computation because it requires reasoning on a subtle level about objects and their properties.
— Martin Erwig, Once Upon an Algorithm
09/13/2024
Maybe that’s precisely what quantum physics or metaphysics is telling us. If we exist, that means we’re being watched. There is something or someone that never lets us out of its sight.
— Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel, The Physics of Sorrow
09/12/2024
Particularly when the organization is big, the pressure to run projects the same way everyone else does, so that they look correct even at the expense of being successful, is significant.
— Marianne Bellotti, Kill It With Fire
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