Mike Duffy

“We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water,” he wrote. “We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves.”
― Fritjof Capra, The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision

“It is amusing to speculate that the reason why music has the ability to move us so deeply is that it is an auditory allusion to our basic connection to the universe. If our cosmic origins are seated in sound patterns, is it too far-fetched to think that music viscerally enables us to tap into those origins?”
― Stephon Alexander, The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe

“most businesses don’t care about ML metrics unless they can move business metrics. Therefore, if an ML system is built for a business, it must be motivated by business objectives, which need to be translated into ML objectives to guide the development of ML models.”
― Chip Huyen, Designing Machine Learning Systems: An Iterative Process for Production-Ready Applications

“the First and Second Laws of Audio, as espoused by John Chen at Grado: • First law: you can never have too much power • Second law: see the first law”
― Jason Stoddard, Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up