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9 Oct
Analogy O' The Day

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From: Peter Langston <psl>
Date: Wed,  9 Oct 96 17:51:33 -0700
To: Fun_People
Subject: Analogy O' The Day

Forwarded-by: Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com>
Forwarded-by: Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>

It is fairly clear that the status of Stanford University within the
linguistic sciences at present is roughly comparable to the status of
Gengis Khan in Asia during the mid-thirteenth century, except that
Stanford has vastly better computational resources than were available
to the mongol empire, while Gengis Khan certainly had superior numbers
of horses (but no postdocs).
	-- Geoffrey K. Pullum, _A memo from the Vice Cancellor_

© 1996 Peter Langston