Author: KarinsDad
Date: 12:11:22 05/09/00
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On May 09, 2000 at 14:40:46, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote: >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 Yes, they flashed the quote so quickly that I barely had time to read the quote, let alone the name (which I should have recognized, I just didn't have time). Thanks for supplying the actual quote. KarinsDad :)
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