From: timm@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Tim Menzies)
Subject: A few of my favourite sigs...
Reply-To: timm@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Tim Menzies)
Organization: none
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 03:53:42 GMT

In keeping with the overall tone of alt.quotations, I include below the
quotes used in my mail signature files over the last few months.  (Note,
I work in a AI lab, hence all the AI-related quotes).

"Why do we want to mimic 
 human intelligence? What  
 possible use is a computer
 that gets bored, gets horny,
 who doesn't feel like
 working right now, and 
 doesn't know what
 to do with Sunday
 afternoon?"

"30 years ago, I made  
 some outrageous promises
 about AI. I didn't deliver.
 Neither did you. This is
 all your fault."
 - Marvin Minsky, IJCAI'91
                 (summary)

"It's amazing how 
 much 'mature wisdom' 
 resembles being too 
 tired." - Lazarus Long

"Every cloud has a silver
 lining, every tree a
 wood-cutter, and every
 fence a fence-sitter."

 ????    
  OO   A like,   
   >   totally 
  \/   cool dude.

"Don't talk to me about  
 Women's Liberation.
 They've already got me
 right just where it 
 hurts!!"
 -- Joe Jackson

 "What a dull place the
   world would be if it
  was merely as good as 
 our wildest dreams."

"To have knowledge,
first you must doubt."

"If 100 people in Java 
 realise that morphic
 resonance is completely 
 wrong, then it will be
 easier for someone else
 in Rome to come to the
 same conclusion." -- me
 

 #include trite.remark
 #include standard.disclaimer 
 for(i=i; i++; i=10)
       printf("ha ");   
                  
         

 Sane,
 Plain,
 And tedious to know.
   -- The epitaph of the
      computer scientist

 Sane,
 Plain,
 And tedious to know.
   -- The epitaph of the
      computer scientist

 "Just because there's
 a reason\ Doesn't mean
 its understood."
 -- Stiff Little Fingers,
    circa (?) 1977

 I'm terribly sorry, but
 my karma just ran over 
 your dogma.
             -- me
    

 Q- What do you call a man
    with no arms, no legs
    and who is doing laps
    in your pool?
 A- Clever Dick.

 A Master is someone
 who started before
 you did.
    - Gary Zukav

 NOTWORK: n. A network when
 it is acting flaky. Origin
 (?) IBM.
    - Hackers Dictionary

 "We are all fallible, and
 prone to error; let us then
 pardon each other's folly.
 This is the first principle
 of natural right." -Voltaire

 "I don't feel in the least
 bit humble before the vast-
 ness of the heavens. The
 stars may be large, but they
 can not think or love; and
 these are the qualities 
 which impress me far more 
 than size does. I take no
 credit for weighing nearly
 seventeen stone" - FP Ramsey 

 "Butterflies live for 
 exactly the right amount
 of time."
           -- Amanda

 "And now that you are making
 your own days... even if no
 one reads you but me you
 won't be depressed. Not 
 everyone can look up, even
 at me. It hurts their eyes."
   -- from "A True Account of
      Talking to the Sun at
      Fire Isalnd"

 "I found myself\ designing
 rooms\ that wouldn't let
 the light in\ with no way
 in\ and no way out\ and
 space to fly my kite in."
   -- Godley & Creme,
      Freeze Frame

 "I don't know what the 
 answer is, but I admire
 the problem."
     -- Ashley Brilliant

 "Practice random 
 acts of kindness
 and senseless
 beauty."
  -- Oz car sticker

 "I gave her all she
 every wanted. It
 wasn't what she 
 wanted." -- U2
 
 "The aim of AI is
 to make computers
 act like the ones
 in the movies." 

 "The roots go down and
 the plant goes up and 
 nobody knows why or
 how, but we are all 
 like that." 

 "More than iron, more than
 lead, more than gold I
 need electricity. I need
 it more than I need lamb
 or pork or lettuce or
 cucumber. I need it for
 my dreams." -- RACTOR

 "One cloud feels lonely."
  -- Richard Adams
    
 "The world is moved by
  jerks." -- me.          
 
 "Scientific progress
  goes 'BOINK' ? "
    -- Hobbes

 "You laughed cause you
 knew that you were un-
 touchable\ not because
 what I said was wrong."
   -- Sinead O'Conner         

 "Achilles, a PHD student,
 had to choose between
 having a passionate but
 poor life as an academic
 or a dull but rich life
 as a IT professional
 yuppie. Legend has it
 that he chose poverty."
                          
 "I raise my quill;
 I am responsible."
   -- Voltaire                             


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