Fun_People Archive
8 Nov
Miscellaneous Bits from "Life 6.6"
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 95 14:17:54 -0800
From: Peter Langston <psl>
To: Fun_People
Subject: Miscellaneous Bits from "Life 6.6"
Forwarded-by: cate3@netcom.com
Excerpted-from: Life 6.6
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I don't take drugs - I'm not even an athlete.
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What is small and yellow and very dangerous?
A canary with the super-user password!
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'Tis the dream of each programmer
Before his life is done
to write three lines of APL
And make the damn things run
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The Meta-Turing Test:
I'll call something intelligent when it attempts to
construct objects and apply Turing tests to them.
-Lew Mammel, Jr.
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They say there are two types of people who fly exclusively on Boeing planes:
1. Boeing engineers.
2. McDonnell Douglas engineers.
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The flagships of the British and American fleets were passing each other
sometime ago. The admiral of the American fleet signaled to the British
Admiral: 'How is the world's second largest navy?'.
The British admiral signaled back: 'Very well thank you. How is the world's
second best?'.
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I used to think the mind was the most important part of a person. Then I
realized what part of me is telling me that.
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"In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really
good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change
their minds and you never hear that old viewfrom them again. They really do
it. It doesn't happen as often as t should, because scientists are human and
change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the
last time something like that happened in politics or religion."
-- Carl Sagan
1987 CSICOP Keynote Address
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"Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of
course, living in a state of sin." John von Neumann
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antisesquipedalial - opposed to the use of large words
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