David Ian Miller writes for the San Francisco Chronicle that
Even atheists can have what I would describe as deeply spiritual lives. [This] realization came by way of my interview this week with Mike Lee, a name familiar to Mac geeks around the world.
Mike Lee,
describes himself on his blog as the “world’s toughest programmer.” That toughness was born out of surviving an abusive childhood, which was followed by a mostly unsuccessful search for meaning in the Christian, Buddhist and Shinto faiths. Lee, who grew up in Hawaii and now lives in Cupertino, eventually became a committed atheist. Still, he continues to cultivate the values that were important to his samurai ancestors, believing that “a life lived according to the virtues of rectitude, courage, benevolence, respect, honesty, honor and loyalty should please any reasonable deity.”
