And how, does that first one ever deserve an encore! I love how the clouds have a gold lining ~ in fact, I like the pastel progression down through the third picture. :-)
This pub's for you: http://www.johnzpchut.com/documents/Pages%20from%20iWoz%20latest%20from%20USA%20with%20UK%20Kreks.pdf excerpt: (page 18-19) According to my birth certificate, my full name is Stephan Gary Wozniak, born in 1950 to my dad, Francis Jacob Wozniak (everyone called him Jerry), and to my mom, Margaret Louise Wozniak. My mother said she meant to name me Stephen with an e, but the birth certificate was wrong. So Stephen with an e is what I go by now. My dad was from Michigan; Mom was from Washington State. My dad and his brother, who later became a Catholic priest, were raised in a strict and pious Catholic household. But by the time my parents had me—I’m the oldest of three—my dad had rebelled against that: the Catholicism, I mean. So I never got any exposure to religion. Church, mass, communion. What is that? Seriously, I couldn’t tell you. But from the earliest age, I had a lot of conversations with my parents about social policies and how things work. As for religion, if I asked, my dad would say, no, no, he was scientific. Science was the religion. We had discussions about science and truth and honesty, the first discussions of many that formed my values. And what he told me was, he just wanted things to be testable. He thought that to see if something is true, the most important thing is to run experiments, to see what the truth is, and then you call it real. You don’t just read something in a book or hear someone saying something and just believe it, not ever.
The ice is pretty. Annoying, but pretty.
ReplyDeleteAnd how, does that first one ever deserve an encore! I love how the clouds have a gold lining ~ in fact, I like the pastel progression down through the third picture. :-)
ReplyDeleteHappy Groundhog's Day
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excerpt: (page 18-19)
According to my birth certificate, my full name is Stephan Gary
Wozniak, born in 1950 to my dad, Francis Jacob Wozniak (everyone
called him Jerry), and to my mom, Margaret Louise Wozniak. My
mother said she meant to name me Stephen with an e, but the birth
certificate was wrong. So Stephen with an e is what I go by now.
My dad was from Michigan; Mom was from Washington State.
My dad and his brother, who later became a Catholic priest, were
raised in a strict and pious Catholic household. But by the time my parents had me—I’m the oldest of three—my dad had
rebelled against that: the Catholicism, I mean. So I never got any
exposure to religion. Church, mass, communion. What is that?
Seriously, I couldn’t tell you.
But from the earliest age, I had a lot of conversations with my
parents about social policies and how things work. As for religion, if I asked, my dad would say, no, no, he was scientific. Science was the religion. We had discussions about science and
truth and honesty, the first discussions of many that formed my
values. And what he told me was, he just wanted things to be
testable. He thought that to see if something is true, the most
important thing is to run experiments, to see what the truth is,
and then you call it real. You don’t just read something in a book
or hear someone saying something and just believe it, not ever.
Another iWoz quote:
ReplyDelete"Logic became the heart of my existence in 5th grade."