Motaz Alfarraj

“The Bible Code, a 1998 bestseller, claimed that the bible contains predictions on the future events that you can find by skipping letters at regular intervals an assembling words from the letter you land on. Unfortunately, there are so many ways to do this that you're guaranteed to find "predictions" in any sufficiently long text.”
― Pedro Domingos, The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World

“وشاع أن النبي عليه السلام قضى بقتله فتقدم ابنه، وقال له: «يا رسول الله، إنه بلغني أنك تريد قتل عبد الله بن أبي فيما بلغك عنه، فإن كنت فاعلًا فمرني به فأنا أحمل إليك رأسه. فوالله لقد علمت الخزرج ما كان بها من رجل أبر بوالده مني، وإني لأخشى أن تأمر به غيري فيقتله؛ فلا تدعني نفسي أنظر إلى قاتل أبي يمشي في الناس فأقتله فأقتل رجلًا مؤمنًا بكافر فأدخل النار.»”
― عباس محمود العقاد, ‫عبقرية محمد‬

“We want to believe that human violence is somehow beyond our understanding, because as long as it remains a mystery, we have no duty to avoid it, explore it, or anticipate it. We need feel no responsibility for failing to read signals if there are none to read.”
― Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

“learned that the time after a major incident offered a period of safety and the best rest,”
― Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence