Jon Williams
Jon Williams
almost best definitely good shape
I feel like I'm in the best shape I've ever been in. Stamina-wise I'm doing well just because I've been in there almost every play. But it's definitely good to get the reps.
best diverse
It's a diverse mix. The best thing about it is the fellowship.
backs chance couple happy hold key last left lost mix position running waited
We lost a couple of key running backs and that kind of left me here in the position that I'm at. I'm happy to get the chance to take over. I've waited the last couple of years to kind of be in the mix and get the chance to hold the rock.
competing definitely earn guy guys spot starting trying until
I'm definitely trying to earn that starting spot. I think every guy is. I'm still competing with all of the guys here and then I'll be competing with the new guys that come in this fall. I'm not going to say it's my spot until I actually earn it.
biggest country project
It's the biggest project of its kind in the country.
battle drawn influenced
The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.
american-celebrity
I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
advertising
The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
sf
For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
decided freedom hard offered sf
It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.
character years law
Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated it in startling ways, and that behaved (or were programmed to behave) very much like human beings... Now we have 14-year-olds with more computing power on their desktops than existed in the entire world in 1960. But computers in fiction are still behaving in much the same way as they did in the Sixties. That's because in fiction [artificial intelligence] has to follow the laws of dramatic logic, just like human characters.
book writing long
How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
reading technology favors
I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.
intelligent college people
I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.