-- Sammi Hadzovic [in Andy Newman's 2003/02/14 NYT article.]
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/14/nyregion/14EYEB.html
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-"The question of whether computers can think is like the question of
-whether submarines can swim."
- -- Edsgar Dijkstra
+[T]he question of whether Machines Can Think, [...] is about as
+relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim.
+ -- Edsger W. Dijkstra "The threats to computing science"
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"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX.
We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
I think of as victims when my guard drops. It's at least possible I'm
even crazier than my fellows, whom I'm tempted to pity.
"There seems only one thing to do, and that's get drunk"
- -- Chad C. Mulligan (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar p390)
+ -- Chad C. Mulligan (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar_ p390)
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"You have many years to live--do things you will be proud to remember
when you are old."
- -- Shinka proverb. (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar p413)
+ -- Shinka proverb. (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar_ p413)
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If you find it impossible to believe that the universe didn't have a
creator, why don't you find it impossible that your creator didn't