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Post #85,675
by tuberculosis
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3/5/03 12:38:05 AM
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New Natch
Wynkoop on Wynkoop

(pronounced win - koop on wine - koop)

Makers of Railyard Ale


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 #85,722
by deSitter
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3/5/03 9:59:33 AM
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New Re: Natch
A good Riever's day was - 10 inches of snow and a slowly emptying bottle of B&B, and lots of fresh coffee. :)

Ah...

(Riever's is at Mississippi and Gaylord. Nice pub.)
-drl
     Back in the USSA - (tuberculosis) - (8) - March 4, 2003, 11:42:56 PM EST
         Wilkommen Bienvenue! -NT - (boxley) - March 4, 2003, 11:45:17 PM EST
         Wynkoop, the pub? -NT - (tseliot) - (2) - March 5, 2003, 12:33:34 AM EST
             Natch - (tuberculosis) - (1) - March 5, 2003, 12:38:05 AM EST
                 Re: Natch - (deSitter) - March 5, 2003, 09:59:33 AM EST
         ObLRPD: Learn to swim. - (kmself) - March 5, 2003, 12:34:44 AM EST
         Welcome to the snow and cold :) - (Steve Lowe) - (1) - March 5, 2003, 12:37:05 AM EST
             Good for me - (tuberculosis) - March 5, 2003, 12:39:35 AM EST
         Welcome back, Todd! -NT - (a6l6e6x) - March 5, 2003, 11:59:03 AM EST

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