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A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
I would repeat it, however, a hundred times, that “immediate certainty,” as well as “absolute knowledge” and the “thing in itself,” involve a contradictio in adjecto; we really ought to free ourselves from the misleading significance of words!
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
Again, the fundamental commonality of all of these actions is minimizing energy waste.
Energy and Civilization
Vaclav Smil
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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