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.
09/02/2025
…there is a whiff of sadism in programming, a heroic self-immolation on the pyre of complexity.
— Kent Beck, Tidy First?
09/01/2025
It’s far more reliable to get good at cheap validation than it is to get great at consistently picking the right solution.
— Will Larson, An Elegant Puzzle
08/31/2025
How much you truly “believe” in something can be manifested only through what you are willing to risk for it.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game
08/30/2025
OK, but apart from breakthroughs in optics, mathematics, mechanics, explaining gravity, inventing calculus, something about trigonometry, predicting how planets move, and other stuff that we don’t understand, what has Isaac Newton ever done for us?
— Myles King, Ethical Truth in Light of Quantum Mechanics
08/29/2025
Inaccessibility Theorem: THE INFORMATION YOU HAVE IS NOT THE INFORMATION YOU WANT. THE INFORMATION YOU WANT IS NOT THE INFORMATION YOU NEED. THE INFORMATION YOU NEED IS NOT THE INFORMATION YOU CAN OBTAIN.
— John Gall and D.H. Gall, Systemantics. The Systems Bible
1995 post articles, 399 pages.