[UFO Chicago] Intellectual property

Jordan Bettis jordanb@hafd.org
Tue, 19 Mar 2002 11:34:01 -0600


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On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:38:18PM +0000, Sean Neakums wrote:
> I came across the following in Juri Haberland's signature:
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> >   If each of us have one object, and we exchange them,
> >      then each of us still has one object.
> >   If each of us have one idea,   and we exchange them,
> >      then each of us now has two ideas.

That's a modification of this quote:

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then
you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and
I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have
two ideas.
         -- George Bernard Shaw

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Jordan Bettis <http://www.hafd.org/~jordanb>
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of=
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new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.
          -- Alan J Perlis: Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN 1982

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