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.
06/15/2023
If you are successful and that success translates into financial success, you can expect, at minimum, around 50% of your income and wealth to be given to other people who did not work anywhere near as hard as you.
— Aaron Clarey, Curse of the High IQ
06/14/2023
…readers of fiction are emotionally immersed in a way that readers of philosophy usually aren’t (as cognitive research confirms), so readers take the scenarios more seriously.
— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now
06/13/2023
…where free will is absent, the mind is reduced to a mere byproduct of deterministic material reality. Consciousness, including the psychological sensation of intentionality and self-awareness in general, becomes a kind of meaningless sideshow compulsively played by our irrelevant “minds”, as we are forced to call them, to interpret that which they cannot affect.
— Christopher Michael Langan, The Art of Knowing
06/12/2023
You will never know for sure if someone is an asshole until he becomes rich.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes
06/11/2023
If, by contrast, the goal is for everyone in a meeting to be nice to each other and every idea is treated as a good one, you can end up with results nobody is pleased with.
— Jim Whitehurst and Gary Hamel, The Open Organization
1465 post articles, 293 pages.