Peter P. Mahoney Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. You really had to learn to protect yourself from all Gooks in Vietnam, or else you would end up dead.

Peter P. Mahoney

#7. 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