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It Was One Thing To Use Computers As A Tool, Quite Another To Let Them Do Your Thinking For You.

The U.s. Military Is Us. There Is No Truer Representation Of A Country Than The People That It Sends Into The Field To Fight For It. The People Who Wear Our Uniform And Carry Our Rifles Into Combat Are Our Kids, And Our Job Is To Support Them, Because They're Protecting Us.

In The Soviet Union It Was Illegal To Take A Photograph Of A Train Station. Look What Happened To Them. They Tried To Classify Everything.

I Think About The Characters I've Created And Then I Sit Down And Start Typing And See What They Will Do. There's A Lot Of Subconscious Thought That Goes On. It Amazes Me To Find Out, A Few Chapters Later, Why I Put Someone In A Certain Place When I Did. It's Spooky.

There Used To Be This Country Called The Soviet Union; It's Not There Anymore. Our Technology Was Better Than Theirs.