Will Harvey
Will Harvey
Will Harveyis a software developer and Silicon Valley entrepreneur. At the age of 15 he wrote Music Construction Setfor the Apple II, the first commercial sheet music processor for home computers. Music Construction Set was ported to other systems by its publisher, Electronic Arts. He wrote two games for the Apple IIgs: Zany Golfand The Immortal. Harvey founded two consumer virtual world Internet companies: IMVU, an instant messaging company, and There, Inc., an MMOG company...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.
Nothing great or new can be done without enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the fly-wheel which carries your saw through the knots in the log.
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.
The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
Instead of a 'Western Christianity,' we now witness a post-Christian West (in Europe) and a post-Western Christianity (in the global South). America is somewhere in between.
I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating.
Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the American culture.
Your reach should always exceed your grasp.
It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature of a society.
There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.
The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.
Not to decide is to decide.
Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.