Submitted by Mike Blackstone (not verified) on Tue, 07/08/2003 - 22:22.
I sympathize with your dilemma, and wrestle with it myself.
I found your postscript amusing. In Minsky's Society of Mind he uses a quote from John McCarthy as an epigram: "He who won't do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense." I use this often myself, but usually rephrase it as: "Anyone who ..."
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I sympathize with your dilemma, and wrestle with it myself.
I found your postscript amusing. In Minsky's Society of Mind he uses a quote from John McCarthy as an epigram: "He who won't do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense." I use this often myself, but usually rephrase it as: "Anyone who ..."