— Mahatma Gandi
Category: Religion
The devil can site scripture for his own purposes
— William Shakespeare
God doesn’t ask you to change the world, he asks you to do something much more difficult: to change yourself
— A priest in a little country church in Normandy, France
The ‘no free lunch’ theorem is a lot like the reason Pascal’s wager fails…
— From The Master Algorithm – How the Quest for the ultimate learning machine will remake our world by Pedro Domingos P. 63 In his Pensées, published in 1669, Pascal said we should believe in the Christian God because if he exists that gains us eternal life, and if he doesn’t we lose very little. This
One sunny afternoon, when he wasn’t feeling well, Jobs sat in the garden behind his house and reflected on death…
From Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson One sunny afternoon, when he wasn’t feeling well, Jobs sat in the garden behind his house and reflected on death. He talked about his experiences in India almost four decades earlier, his study of Buddhism, and his views on reincarnation and spiritual transcendence. “I’m about fifty-fifty on believing in
The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith rather than on living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it. I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don’t. It’s the great mystery.
— Steve Jobs