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Subject: Re: Pathetic

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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