Pastoral Resources

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them.

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.

Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck.

I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.

We have an epidemic of sexual predators following our children, whether it be on the computers, whether it be in our public parks, whether it be in the workplace, or even our schools.

Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer.

One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address - 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small.

That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it.

In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.

But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection.

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.

When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.

I just want to keep creating stuff, work regularly and learn how to use a computer properly.

In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that.

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.

Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer.