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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