How High Quality Code is Like The Most Profound Science

Profound science isn’t merely useful, fundamental, accurate, or informative. Science that isn’t profound is still great and necessary, but profound science is a term I would reserve for science that has a high explanatory power with only a small number of postulates. Forceful examples include, say, Evolution, or Germ Theory. Such theories tend to be [...]

Leibniz, Letter to Duke of Hanover, 1679

Leibniz gives a wicked elevator pitch for some new technology he’s working on…

If only God would again inspire your Highness, the idea which had the goodness to determine that I be granted 1200 ecus would become the idea of a perpetual revenue, and then I would be as happy as Raymond Lull, and perhaps with [...]