John Perry
John Perry
caves criminals wonder
I've begun to wonder if we wouldn't also regard spelunkers as desperate criminals if AT&T owned all the caves.
running race two
I'm a member of that half of the human race which is inclined to divide the human race into two kinds of people. My dividing line runs between the people who crave certainty and the people who trust chance.
art praying holy
Art is a service, not a product. Created beauty is a relationship, and a relationship with the Holy at that. Reducing such work to 'content' is like praying in swear words. End of Sermon. Back to business.
bananas incompetence
Incompetence is a double-edged banana.
creating humanity world
Humanity seems bent on creating a world economy primarily based on goods that take no material form. In doing so, we may be eliminating any predictable connection between creators and a fair reward for the utility others may find in their works.
soul curriculum jokes
God's jokes are the soul's curriculum.
internet free-speech feels
The more you've got, the shorter it feels.
doe probability
Hope does not always require probability.
names ideas sight
I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.
real opportunity numbers
Imagine discovering a continent so vast that it may have no end to its dimensions. Imagine a new world with more resources than all our future greed might exhaust, more opportunities than there will ever be entrepreneurs enough to exploit, and a peculiar kind of real estate that expands with development. Imagine a place where trespassers leave no footprints, where goods can be stolen infinite number of times and yet remain in the possession of their original owners, where business you never heard of can own the history of your personal affairs...
expression support cyberspace
I support freedom of expression, no matter whose, so I oppose DDoS attacks regardless of their target... they're the poison gas of cyberspace.
thinking tolerance irony
Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony
differences privacy shame
The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy.
government sight magic
One can imagine the government's problem. This is all pretty magical stuff to them. If I were trying to terminate the operations of a witch coven, I'd probably seize everything in sight. How would I tell the ordinary household brooms from the getaway vehicles?