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Jon Postel Quotes

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.

Jon Postel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 6, 1943 - October 16, 1998

Topics

Me Writing Puzzle Weird Doing Kind

In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.

Jimmy Smits

Community College Help Trying Labor

When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Nature World America Human Nature

When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men clambering over walls and getting tangled in barbed wire.

Andrew O'Hagan

Men Walls Growing Up Someone Growing

I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.

Matisyahu

People Think Humanity Lose Wrong

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

Mary Oliver

People Learn Way Respond Read Poems

I'm nearing the end of the road and still learning.

Mike Wallace

Learning Road End Still

A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience.

Michael Mann

Experience People Nothing Screen

I think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 9/11, have prevented a 9/11-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has become greater, not lesser.

Michael McCaul

Think Place Hand Become Attack Been

I saw B.B. King in concert one time where he had this guy that would bring him out a glass of water and towel to wipe his forehead with.

Johnny Van Zant

Time Water King Glass Him Out

We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we see, but we still regard them as necessary physical and spiritual companions. Technological nature can't completely satisfy that yearning.

Diane Ackerman

Nature Spiritual Plants Internet See

The flat-out worst movie I've ever seen has to be Uwe Boll's 'Rampage.'

Chris Cubas

Worst Seen Movie Ever

Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.

Peter Davison

Poetry World Understanding Understand