From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!preece Newsgroups: net.micro Title: Re: pournelle... - (nf) Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.1527 Posted: Mon Feb 21 17:44:49 1983 Received: Tue Feb 22 06:30:08 1983 #R:sri-arpa:-45500:uicsl:7000005:000:516 uicsl!preece Feb 21 14:02:00 1983 Life is pretty dull when you only listen to those you agree with. Pournelle often gives me the same kind of irritation you'd expect with anyone who vigorously supports strongly held opinions, but that's hardly a good reason for shutting him up. He represents a large chunk of the world, too, so his opinions are interesting is terms of what other people think of us (us representing, broadly, computer people as opposed to people who happen to use computers). scott preece coordinated science lab, UIUC, Urbana, IL