Maria Weir

“We don’t have children to fulfill our dreams. Children allow us to let go of the dreams we were never meant to fulfill.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“Faith is to know the pattern is there, even though none is visible.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“Christians have been trained at a very deep level of their thinking to believe that the idea of an eternal hell is a clear and unambiguous element of their faith, and that therefore the idea must make perfect moral sense.”
― David Bentley Hart, That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation

“summed up Zuckerberg’s attitude perfectly, noting, “Between speech and truth, he chose speech. Between speed and perfection, he chose speed. Between scale and safety, he chose scale.” That idea of “mistakes were made” in service to the bigger idea would carry throughout Zuckerberg’s career and bleed into Facebook’s culture. This approach was distilled in the “Move fast and break things” posters that adorned the company headquarters early on. While this motto was a geek coding reference to software, it was a telling choice. The aim was to “break things” instead of “change things” or “fix things” or “improve things.”
― Kara Swisher, Burn Book: A Tech Love Story