Slashdot Mirror
Ray Bradbury Loves Libraries, Hates the Internet
Hugh Pickens was one of several readers to let us know that, according to a NY Times story, the 89-year-old Ray Bradbury hates the Internet. But he loves libraries, and is helping raise $280,000 to keep libraries in Ventura County open. "Among Mr. Bradbury's passions, none burn quite as hot as his lifelong enthusiasm for halls of books. ... 'Libraries raised me,' Mr. Bradbury said. 'I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.' ... The Internet? Don't get him started. 'The Internet is a big distraction,' Mr. Bradbury barked... 'Yahoo called me eight weeks ago,' he said, voice rising. 'They wanted to put a book of mine on Yahoo! You know what I told them? "To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet." It's distracting. It's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.'"
Does he like them for the books? He knows you can read books on the Internet, right? Maybe he just doesn't know how to use the internet properly (he is old, after all) and it just confuses and scares him.
I wonder how he feels about African Americans... I have have a good guess.
You mean you would enjoy his works more if he was a staunch democrat? Whats wrong with respecting other peoples' opinions even if you don't agree with them? The world would be a much better place if people spent half as much time worrying about themselves instead of what others are doing.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
It is a sad day when bad fanfiction and AMVs are considered "art and culture."
Frosty piss posts are worthless, GNAA posts are worthless and hurtful, but they are the least of this site's neuroses.
the guy is bordering on 90 decades, who cares about his opinions any more?
comment first, facts later. http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm
The advantage of published books is that someone has already screened most of the crap and I don't have to see it. Except when someone drops the ball and lets something like Wide Sargasso Sea through. Anyway, I'm going to happily maintain my standards. You can recognize goatse.cx as art if you want to keep up your trendy relativism.
Frosty piss posts are worthless, GNAA posts are worthless and hurtful, but they are the least of this site's neuroses.
The guy is obviously just a senile old fool.
An SQL query goes to a bar, walks up to a table and asks, "Mind if I join you?"