From: Don Armstrong Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 01:41:24 +0000 (+0000) Subject: fix Dijkstra quote and stand on Zanzibar underbars X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?p=lib.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=31fcf3406fe05e918cfbbcd7742d7bc1253dec29 fix Dijkstra quote and stand on Zanzibar underbars --- diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt index c8302fc..e289e76 100644 --- a/signature_stuff/quote.txt +++ b/signature_stuff/quote.txt @@ -163,9 +163,9 @@ tropicana.] -- Sammi Hadzovic [in Andy Newman's 2003/02/14 NYT article.] http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/14/nyregion/14EYEB.html % -"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" % "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." @@ -497,11 +497,11 @@ symptoms of insanity around me. And I'm human, the same as the poeple 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) % "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) % 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