Author: José Antônio Fabiano Mendes
Date: 11:40:46 05/09/00
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On May 09, 2000 at 13:49:23, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: >[snips] > >>KarinsDad :) > >>PS. I read a quote of yours (or at least I thought it was your name) the other >>day when signing onto mplayer.com. It was something like "asking if computers >>think is like asking if submarines swim". Was this your quote? If so, could you >>get me the exact quote. Thanks. > > >Hate to disappoint you but the quote was not mine. However, I like it so much >that I am applying for authorship :) BTW, the quote sounds like one of the >functionalist smart cracks at the beginning of a debate between say, Searle and >Dennett :)) > >*** Djordje The author is E.W.Dijkstra,a famous Dutch computer scientist. He won the "Turing Award" some 30 years ago. JAFM http://aisr.lib.tju.edu/~murray/optometry/tsld027.htm http://www.cbi.umn.edu/inv/burros/ewd594.htm
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