When I was a kid, which was just after Edison invented moving pictures, there were films that involved aliens coming to Earth for bad purposes.
Virtually any pointed edifice is considered a candidate for alien engineering. After all, how could the Egyptians or Mayans have possibly stacked up stone blocks into pyramids?
When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last.
I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.
Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them.
It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page.
The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things.
Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness.
I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.
When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?
To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.
Young Evangelicals, especially, are breaking ranks with older Evangelicals (over 40) and are more and more leaning towards voting Democratic.
Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically.
In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.
The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.
In our post-Freudian world, it is no longer a goal to become people of character who live out a God-ordained ideal of selfhood.
Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality.
Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.
How is it more for the glory of God to save man irresistibly, than to save him as a free agent, by such grace as he may either concur or resist?
Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.
