Peter P. Mahoney famous quotes

It's definitely a challenge, but it's even more than that. Beyond the basic need to understand what you're saying, a computer needs to understand what you're trying to do. So humans talking to computers present variable challenges.
-- Peter P. Mahoney

#Talking #Challenges #Trying

I was very religious when I was younger. I went to a seminary for three years, studied to be a priest, and um, so that sort of natural idealism just um sort of carried over into my feelings about joining the army.
-- Peter P. Mahoney

#Religious #Army #Years

I had what I would consider a normal upbringing and, which to me, a normal American up - upbringing for an American male child almost gears you towards going into the military.
-- Peter P. Mahoney

#Children #Military #Males

The military is sort of the ultimate test of proving that you're a man, and certainly that whole idea was very much uppermost in my mind when I joined the Army.
-- Peter P. Mahoney

#Military #Army #Men

Because I was into like proving myself, which was one of the big things that ah, that the whole military experience sort of offers a kid at that age, um, I went to officer candidate school. Um, and I graduated as a second lieutenant at the age of nineteen.
-- Peter P. Mahoney

#Military #Kids #School

There was a part, you know, obviously there was a part of the whole I military experience that you know like hooks right into the whole boyhood experience that that you know most American boys have growing up, you know, which is proving your manhood by proving how hard you are, by proving that you can take it.
-- Peter P. Mahoney

#Growing Up #Military #Boys

You really had to learn to protect yourself from all Gooks in Vietnam, or else you would end up dead.
-- Peter P. Mahoney

#Vietnam #Ends #Protect

Perhaps the thing that most got to me was the ide - the whole thing about lying, and how pervasive lying about Vietnam was.
-- Peter P. Mahoney

#Lying #Vietnam #Whole

Lieutenants lied to captains, captains lied to colonels, colonels lied to generals, generals lied to politicians, politicians lied to the people. Right on up and down the line. It was like a complete and total, not a total lie, but just like so much, it was like PR, in other words it was like okay, we've got to sell the war to the American people.
-- Peter P. Mahoney

#Lying #War #People

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.

Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.

It is very clear that one way to challenge insults is to submit to them.

In trying to avoid one sin I've committed another.

I try to be as courteous as possible and sometimes try to tell my fans that as much as I appreciate their support, there are times where I need to be able to have an uninterrupted dinner or not have to take a bunch of pictures or just be able to do some of the normal things.

If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.