Frank Gehry, the architect. I remember watching a documentary about him in which you see how he designs a building: he takes a piece of Scotch tape, cuts it to pieces, and keeps pasting one piece onto another until he gets a pile, which is the new building—and then the other architects draw it.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
