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Post #78,122

by tuberculosis

1/30/03 4:28:39 PM

We gotta blame somebody

I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customer got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don't feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What's in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.

--Alan Perlis

Post #78,143

by admin

1/30/03 5:06:56 PM

ObLRPD:

What? You're not me? I'm sorry, I can't talk to you. Put me on the phone instead.

Regards,

-scott anderson

"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."

Post #78,153

by inthane-chan

1/30/03 6:15:34 PM

ObSentientLRPD:

1. I've heard it before; and
2. I didn't care the first time.

Post #78,165

by admin

1/30/03 6:43:33 PM

ObCorollaryLRPD: "What?"

Regards,

-scott anderson

"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."

Post #78,183

by folkert

1/30/03 7:30:43 PM

*plonk*

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In the beginning was the Horde.... - (kmself) - (43) - Jan. 26, 2003, 06:00:47 PM EST

Some observations - (dmarker) - Jan. 26, 2003, 07:36:41 PM EST

Wow. I'm even in there. I'd forgotten. Thanks KMS. -NT - (Another Scott) - Jan. 26, 2003, 08:19:18 PM EST

Someone was asking about Freeps IWE handle... - (ChrisR) - (1) - Jan. 26, 2003, 08:32:33 PM EST

I believe so -NT - (ben_tilly) - Jan. 26, 2003, 09:11:21 PM EST

Is that from the beginning? - (Brandioch) - (2) - Jan. 26, 2003, 09:29:49 PM EST

Yes, modulo forum errors, it's the whole shooting match... - (kmself) - (1) - Jan. 26, 2003, 11:44:43 PM EST

I'm actually enjoying myself. - (static) - Jan. 26, 2003, 11:51:12 PM EST

Wow. Thanks - (broomberg) - (1) - Jan. 26, 2003, 09:44:43 PM EST

I'm prescient - (broomberg) - Jan. 26, 2003, 10:40:38 PM EST

Deja.. notice how much clearer was Le Michel's prose - (Ashton) - Jan. 26, 2003, 10:02:54 PM EST

*smile* The 'good ole days' - (imric) - Jan. 26, 2003, 11:53:40 PM EST

As I remind you every chance I get... - (tseliot) - (1) - Jan. 27, 2003, 01:19:24 AM EST

Max post indicated above resp. to brandi - (kmself) - Jan. 27, 2003, 02:08:01 AM EST

Jeeze does anyone remember jshekhel - (dmarker) - (1) - Jan. 27, 2003, 05:34:33 AM EST

IIRC he had an encyclop\ufffddic memory of M$ weirdnesses - (Ashton) - Jan. 27, 2003, 05:45:19 AM EST

That can't be right - (drewk) - (8) - Jan. 27, 2003, 08:42:52 AM EST

I dont know about post count - (boxley) - (1) - Jan. 27, 2003, 09:57:32 AM EST

dates are good, my memory isnt :-) - (boxley) - Jan. 27, 2003, 08:42:56 PM EST

Look at the date - (ben_tilly) - (5) - Jan. 27, 2003, 08:41:36 PM EST

you were cypherpunks -NT - (deSitter) - (4) - Jan. 27, 2003, 10:20:10 PM EST

thought Peter was -NT - (boxley) - (2) - Jan. 27, 2003, 10:20:53 PM EST

A lot of people were. - (inthane-chan) - (1) - Jan. 27, 2003, 10:21:32 PM EST

But few as much as I was... :-) -NT - (ben_tilly) - Jan. 28, 2003, 08:41:00 PM EST

Hell, I was cypherpunks, __a couple times__:-\ufffd -NT - (Ashton) - Jan. 27, 2003, 10:47:45 PM EST

I miss yaz and cottingham most. -NT - (tseliot) - (4) - Jan. 27, 2003, 10:23:36 AM EST

Concurditto. -NT - (CRConrad) - (3) - Jan. 27, 2003, 10:50:24 AM EST

They are around - (Steve Lowe) - (2) - Jan. 27, 2003, 10:56:27 AM EST

I know. (And where are you, you idler?!? :-) -NT - (CRConrad) - (1) - Jan. 27, 2003, 11:21:34 AM EST

Idling, of course. ;-) -NT - (Steve Lowe) - Jan. 27, 2003, 11:38:58 AM EST

Wow. Thanks! - (inthane-chan) - Jan. 27, 2003, 10:50:57 AM EST

Boy the way Glen Miller played - (cforde) - Jan. 27, 2003, 12:32:51 PM EST

Re: In the beginning was the Horde.... - (orion) - (2) - Jan. 27, 2003, 07:04:03 PM EST

*smile* Keep trying! -NT - (imric) - (1) - Jan. 27, 2003, 11:14:26 PM EST

I found it! - (orion) - Jan. 28, 2003, 03:11:40 PM EST

Re: In the beginning was the Horde.... - (deSitter) - (7) - Jan. 27, 2003, 11:34:00 PM EST

Agree. -NT - (imric) - Jan. 28, 2003, 12:38:52 AM EST

*my* software? - (admin) - (5) - Jan. 28, 2003, 01:27:09 PM EST

We gotta blame somebody -NT - (tuberculosis) - (4) - Jan. 30, 2003, 04:28:39 PM EST

ObLRPD: - (admin) - (3) - Jan. 30, 2003, 05:06:56 PM EST

ObSentientLRPD: - (inthane-chan) - (2) - Jan. 30, 2003, 06:15:34 PM EST

ObCorollaryLRPD: "What?" -NT - (admin) - (1) - Jan. 30, 2003, 06:43:33 PM EST

*plonk* -NT - (folkert) - Jan. 30, 2003, 07:30:43 PM EST

104 posts? From me? HTF did that happen? ;-) - (n3jja) - Jan. 28, 2003, 08:06:03 AM EST

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