trainor@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU ("Douglas J. Trainor") (02/13/86)
From: "Douglas J. Trainor" <trainor@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU> from <colonel%buffalo.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA> One day SIMON was going to the cafeteria when he met WEIZENBAUM, who said: "I have a problem for you to solve." SIMON replied, "tell me more about your problem," and walked on. =================================================================== from <Kelley.pa@Xerox.COM> How long would a simulation of its own lifetime survive? What is the rate of change of all metaphors for the viability of that rate? =================================================================== someone resent me Gabriel's old '83 koan <robins@usc-isib>: A famous Lisp Hacker noticed an Undergraduate sitting in front of a Xerox 1108, trying to edit a complex Klone network via a browser. Wanting to help, the Hacker clicked one of the nodes in the network with the mouse, and asked "what do you see?" Very earnesty, the Undergraduate replied "I see a cursor." The Hacker then quickly pressed the boot toggle at the back of the keyboard, while simultaneously hitting the Undergraduate over the head with a thick Interlisp Manual. The Undergraduate was then Enlightened.