[Readings]The Snowball

很早就买了这本书，一直没时间读。原因是实验室太忙了。这次在火车上读了其中前5章。

其中一个很有意思的小故事：
Buffet从很小就喜欢收集东西，他期望着他收集的东西会在某一个时候派上用场。
还有就是，在普通人眼里看起来很稀松平常的东西，他能从中发现其他人看不到的东西，比如：
去做礼拜的时候，他发现圣歌的作曲者的平均寿命并不比普通人长。所以，他对于宗教就产生怀疑。

"Warren thought about numbers all the time and everywhere, even in church. He liked the sermons, he was bored by the rest of the service; he passed time by calculating the life span of hymn composers from their birth and death dates in the hymnals. In his mind, the religious should reap some reward for their faith. He assumed that hymn composers would live longer than average. Living longer than average seemed to him an important goal. But piety, he found , did nothing to improve longevity. Lacking any personal sense of grace, he began to feel skeptical about religion.
... Warren looked around him. There were opportunities to calculate odds everywhere. The key was to collect information, as much information as you could find."
--The Snowball