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From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To: Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net>
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Subject: Re: A Parable
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On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Charles Mott wrote:

> A physicist is sleeping in his bedroom.  He sees a fire burning in one 
> corner of the room and a bucket of water in another corner.  He puts out 
> the fire and goes back to sleep.
> 
> The mathemetician wakes up and says, "Ah, a solution!"  He then goes 
> back to sleep without doing anything.
> 
> The FreeBSD team wakes up and says, "Let's audit the entire house for
> fires, termite damage, worn carpet, and scratches in the walls -- starting
> first in the kitchen."  They then go back to sleep. 
> 

What, giving up their quantum?!  <tm Terry Lambert>


 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems."