W. Richard Stevens Quotes
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My first encounter with computers was in 1968 as a Freshman engineering student at the University of Michigan, taking a required Fortran IV class.
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I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.
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After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.
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In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
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If it proceeds as commercial development, I'd like to see it annexed. It could bring jobs, help the tax burden and bring us our own small airport.
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It was not a good time for Aerospace Engineers (Boeing was laying off thousands of them) and I found programming more fun anyways.
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The next 8 years were spent working in New Haven for Health Systems International, which was lots of fun, but that's another story.
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I headed back to Ann Arbor, still having enough contacts there to get my job back at the Computing Center, and liking the city a lot.
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This evening could have been better spent almost anywhere if you wanted to find your pulse rate.
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It's too early in the game to tell you, but it's a serious possibility.
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We come from an environment molded from 3 billion years of evolution, and when we change our behavior, there may be problems.