From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f43e6,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b06f8f15f01a568 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: jdege@jdege.visi.com (Jeffrey C. Dege) Subject: Elliot's paranoia (was something relevent once, but no longer) Date: 1998/09/04 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 387816510 References: <904556531.666222@miso.it.uq.edu.au> <6sgror$je8$3@news.indigo.ie> <6sh3qn$9p2$1@hirame.wwa.com> <6simjo$jnh$1@hirame.wwa.com> <6sjk3p$4tc$1@hirame.wwa.com> <6skgn4$3gq$1@hirame.wwa.com> <6sm6md$3fh$1@hirame.wwa.com> <6smv8q$cc5$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@visi.com X-Trace: ptah.visi.com 904911849 209.98.6.59 (Fri, 04 Sep 1998 07:24:09 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 07:24:09 CDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-09-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 04 Sep 1998 08:44:37 GMT, Ell wrote: >In comp.object Jeffrey C. Dege wrote: > >: -- >: "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity >: is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer the truth. >: -- Alfred North Whitehead > >We can take that the tone here is not Whitehead's because you are >including your own material in these supposed quotes. This is highly >dishonest, and disingenuous in my opinion. The quote is taken directly from the Linux fortunes database, and was included in that post at random. (I have 30+ .sigs, and I have no way of knowing which is going to end up on any particular post.) >It's a shame that you smear the name of Whitehead and unjustifiably >associate him with your craftite beliefs as you repeatedly do. Whitehead >deserves much better than to be the poster guy for craftism, empiricism, >and your backward brand of pragmatism (c/e/p). Craftism is a bugaboo that exists solely within your own mind. -- "[I]n fact, I didn't know that cats _could_ grin." "They all can," said the Duchess; "and most of 'em do." "I don't know of any that do," Alice said very politely, feeling quite pleased to have gotten into a conversation. "You don't know much," said the Duchess; "and that's a fact."