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 …

- Peter P. Mahoney

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,…

- Peter P. Mahoney

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 joine…

- Peter P. Mahoney

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

- Peter P. Mahoney

Lieutenants lied to captains, captains lied to colonels, colonels lied to generals, generals lied to politicians, politicians lied to the people. Rig…

- Peter P. Mahoney

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

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 wha…

- Peter P. Mahoney

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 exper…

- Peter P. Mahoney

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 towar…

- Peter P. Mahoney