It's a good story about an interesting guy. There is a follow up.
“You know Russell, that’s really impressive.”
“I guess, I’ve always believed that nothing is withheld from us what we have conceived to do. Most people think the opposite – that all things are withheld from them which they have conceived to do and they end up doing nothing.”
“Wait”, I said, pausing at his last sentence ”What was that quote again?”
“Nothing is withheld from us what we have conceived to do.”
That’s good, who said that?
God did.
What?
God said it and there were only two people who believed it, you know who?
Nope, who?
God and me, so I went out and did it.
Well then, I thought – as he finished showing me through the archives – I’m not going to argue with the guy who invented the computer. After about 20 minutes of walking me through his contributions to technology, he sat down, finished his coffee, glanced at his half-eaten pastry now-cold, checked his watch and announced: Well, I have to go now......[hat tip : instantpundit.com]
It's a good story about an interesting guy. There is a follow up.
I believe this happened and I believe Dr Kirsch has had guidance from the Lord in his work; I just don’t understand what God meant by that sentence Kirsch repeated. Is Kirsch trying to communicate that God will help us or let us carry out any idea we get? Because that hasn’t been my experience of Him. At all.
Incredibly cool and fortuitous story, though. The sequel, telling readers of the lessons he has taken from the encounter, is also valuable and full of wisdom. So glad this young man decided to be receptive to the elderly man who walked up to him in a coffee shop.
Read the comments at the site... They are so derisive that, some one who is old, could have something interesting to say, and might possibly be relative to them, is so far beyond their conception....I weep for our country.......
How cool is that?
I’m actually shocked that the first digital image was of his newborn son, because the truth is that as feeble as it sounds most of the inventions man has made had some thing to do with getting a better look at Womens bottoms....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKGK2fplV_w
I find it amazing that men who created these things did it with slide rule and hand drawn schematics.
When we used to cut and paste we literally had to cut a circuit from one schematic that was a failure and paste it into a new Save to save time and not redraw the entire circuit.
You literally got out an exactly blade and cut and pasted.
Then We used white out LOL
Now everybody takes cut and paste for granted
The first computer I worked on was the size of a large kitchen table, it had to be programmed in binary with paper tape and could only add subtract divide and multiply.
Larry T was a friend of mine. He had a wry sense of humor, a rebellious nature and he smoked way too much - which finaly got him in the end. He was one of the masterminds at the headgates at Klamath Falls - when they turned off the irrigation water to the farmers.
He would call and say he wanted to show me something and I’d climb into his car and off we would go. Ome of those times was the second time the locals physically cranked open the headgates to let the water through.
When Larry died, the local grange held a memorial celebration of his life. There were several folks there none of us knew. When it came time to introduce themselves and say a few words. They told us that the Larry they knew was an inventor and a computer developer. He was right there when Steve Jobs and others were working in their garage. In addition to developing many complex military applications, he had been the principle developer of the ATM.
Never be too quick to judge a man by his looks.
Evidently, only one copy of my first computer to use, still exists.
“Surviving examples
One reason for a lack of surviving examples of early units was the use of radium on the dials. This in essence made them hazardous waste, and therefore these type were disposed of by the United States Department of Energy. Currently there is one surviving example of FADAC at the Fort Sill artillery museum.”
And when all is said and done, if God decides to vaporize this planet because people absolutely, utterly refuse to stop being crabs...
... then I say BRAVO, LORD!
"You didn' build that!" - Barry Obama