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.
10/04/2025
Does good process indeed lead to good product? Truth to tell, we really don’t know.
— Robert L. Glass and Tom DeMarco, Software Creativity 2.0
10/03/2025
I don’t know anyone who can predict how multiple technologies will behave in every potential scale condition, especially not when they are combined.
— Marianne Bellotti, Kill It With Fire
10/02/2025
The uncomfortable truth is that every generation of technologists thinks the next generation is doing it wrong.
— Krzyś, The Junior Developer Extinction: We’re All Building the Next Programming Dark Age
10/01/2025
Science has a simple goal: to figure out what the world actually is. Not all the possible ways it could be, nor the particular way it should be. Just what it is.
— Sean Carroll, The Big Picture
09/30/2025
[A State is] a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.
— Max Weber, Politics as a Vocation
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