Science and Religion

Science and Religion are not mutually exclusive. They share lots of common followers. Religion should not be considered a symbol of ignorance. Ignorance comes from many directions, including self-righteous atheists. Practice some tolerance.

- Rahul Gupta, rephrased a facebook comment from Alyssa Tyson

Direction

without clear direction, even the world's best vehicle and driver can take you nowhere.

- Rahul Gupta

Forgive

Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party.

- Harold S Kushner

The Job

"the job" is an artificial construct, in which work is managed and parcelled out by corporations and other institutions, to which individuals must apply to participate in doing the work.

If you want to understand the future, just look at what rich people do today. 

- Hal Varian

privileged class experiences a taste of a future that could be the future for everyone.

man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem — how to use his freedom from pressing economic cares, how to occupy the leisure, which science and compound interest will have won for him, to live wisely and agreeably and well.

- Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media

it will be those peoples, who can keep alive, and cultivate into a fuller perfection, the art of life itself and do not sell themselves for the means of life, who will be able to enjoy the abundance when it comes

- John Maynard Keynes

There may need to be two kinds of money: machine money, and human money. Machine Money is what you use to buy things that are produced by machines. These things are always getting cheaper. Human Money is what you use to buy things that only humans can produce. The key thing that humans offer that machines do not is ‘authenticity’.

- Paul Buchheit, GMail creator

Perhaps “Human Money” needs to be further subdivided into “Caring Money” and “Creativity Money.”

- Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media

If “internet creator” were a company, it would be hiring faster than any company in silicon valley.

- Machine money and People

Drop by drop

Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall

- song, Allan Roberts(lyricist), Ella Fitzgerald(singer)

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all. 

Victory puts us on a level with heaven. 

- Lucretius