Join Notes
A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
All the values by means of which we havetriedso far to reader the world estimable for ourselves and which then proved inapplicable and therefore devaluated the world—all these values are, psychologically considered, the results of certain perspectives of utility, designed to maintain and increase human constructs of domination—and they have been falsely projected into the essence of things. What we find here is still the hyperbolic naivete of man: positing himself as the meaning and measure of the value of things.
Will to Power
Friedrich Nietzsche
I am also a determinist, and I say we can use the phrase free will so I guess that would make me, what? A soft determinist? Is sand hard or soft? The difference is a matter of perspective, not a matter of scientific fact.
Free Will Explained
Dan Barker
I have found over and over that specialization leads to complexity; I now think that over-specialization may be the single greatest cause of complexity in software. Conversely, code that is more general-purpose is simpler, cleaner, and easier to understand.
A Philosophy of Software Design
John Ousterhout
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