[109038] in Cypherpunks
The Immortality of Alan Olsen (was Re: Is PGP crackable)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Tue Mar 9 09:04:08 1999
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990308192855.04b00910@clueserver.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 08:47:29 -0500
To: Alan Olsen <alan@clueserver.org>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
At 10:28 PM -0500 on 3/8/99, Alan Olsen wrote:
> "When I was your age we didn't have Tim May! We had to be paranoid on our
> own! And we were grateful!"
Congratulations, Alan, you've made yourself mildly immortal. It's going
into my Eudora "extra" .sig list, along with the likes of:
"Reality is not Optional" -- Thomas Sowell
"The cost of anything is the foregone alternative" -- Walter Johnson
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
Lex vincula justitiae -- Unknown
"You combine pomposity and a command of trivia and try to pass it
off as intellegence." -- Scott Adams, 'Dilbert'
"The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of
limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and
great nations." -- David Friedman, _The_Machinery_of_Freedom_
"If 'we could just pass a few more laws', we would all be criminals."
-- Vinnie Moscaritolo
"Stephen looked sharply round, saw the decanter, smelt to the sloth, and
cried, 'Jack, you have debauched my sloth.'"
-- Patrick O'Brian, 'H.M.S. Surprise'
Lesley Stahl: "You mean *anyone* can set up a web site and compete
with the New York Times?"
Andrew Kantor: "Yes." Stahl: "Isn't that dangerous?"
"We couldn't raise venture capital (I now understand why, they only
invest in things that would obviously succeed without them)."
-- Dave Winer
... and, now </sfx:drumroll>...
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"When I was your age we didn't have Tim May! We had to be paranoid
on our own! And we were grateful!" --Alan Olsen
