We Live At A Time When Emotions

Composing Computer Programs To Solve Scientific Problems Is Like Writing Poetry. You Must Choose Every Word With Care And Link It With The Other Words In Perfect Syntax. There Is No Place For Verbosity Or Carelessness. To Become Fluent In A Computer Lnaguage Demands Almost The Antithesis Of Modern Loose Thinking. It Requires Many Interactive Sessions, The Hands-on Use Of The Device. You Do Not Learn A Foreign Language From A Book, Rather You Have To Live In The Country For Year To Let The Langauge Become An Automatic Part Of You, And The Same Is True For Computer Languages.

You Mustn't Take What I Say As Gospel Because No One Can Second-guess The Future.

We Are The Intelligent Elite Among Animal Life On Earth And Whatever Our Mistakes, [earth] Needs Us. This May Seem An Odd Statement After All That I Have Said About The Way 20th Century Humans Became Almost A Planetary Disease Organism. But It Has Taken [earth] 2.5 Billion Years To Evolve An Animal That Can Think And Communicate Its Thoughts. If We Become Extinct She Has Little Chance Of Evolving Another.

Perhaps The Single Most Important Thing That We Can Do To Undo The Harm We Have Done Is To Fix Firmly In Our Minds The Thought: The Earth Is Alive.

It Just So Happens That The Green Religion Is Now Taking Over From The Christian Religion. I Don't Think People Have Noticed That, But It's Got All The Sort Of Terms That Religions Use. The Greens Use Guilt. That Just Shows How Religious Greens Are. You Can't Win People Round By Saying They Are Guilty For Putting (carbon Dioxide) In The Air.