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• Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary.
  No such faith comforts the software engineer. -- Fred Brooks, Jr....
• To a Europe exhausted by nearly two centuries of religious wars, [Isaac] Newton's works were first and foremost a message about God
  that He did not behave in a capricious or arbitrary fashion, in response to either His will or human prayer, but in accordance with absolute, unwavering, and humanly discoverable laws of nature which governed him and all his works....
• Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.
  -- Edward Gibbon (1734-1794)...
• You who've lost the concept of a right, you who swing in impotent evasiveness between the claim that rights are a gift of God
  a supernatural gift to be taken on faith, or the claim that rights are a gift of society, to be broken at its arbitrary whim -- the source of man's rights is not divine law or congressional law, but the law of identity....
• If he should ever change his faith, it'll be because he no longer thinks he's God.
• Digital computers are themselves more complex than most things people build
  They have very large numbers of states. This makes conceiving, describing, and testing them hard....
• Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night, God said, "Let Newton be," and all was light.
  It did not last; the devil howling "Ho! Let Einstein be!" restored the status quo....