[51906] in Cypherpunks
Re: Cut the mystical artist crap. (No crypto relevance here)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Davis)
Sun Mar 10 23:12:05 1996
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 23:18:03 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Davis <bdavis@thepoint.net>
To: t byfield <tbyfield@panix.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <v02120d01ad693f094399@DialupEudora>
On Sun, 10 Mar 1996, t byfield wrote:
> At 2:10 AM 3/11/96, Anonymous wrote:
>
> >Was it Thoreau who said "Consistency is the hobgoblin of
> >simpletons"?
>
> No, it was Emerson. And that's not what he said.
>
> >What the compromises have to do with are that one lives in
> >a society with rules, mores, laws. One of those touch-shit
> >facts of life. You can do what you want, but when it involves
>
> You seem to be rather fond of consistency. ;)
>
> Ted
>
You are, of course, correct that it was Emerson, my half correct respone
to Anonymous.
The quotation continues ... "With consistency a great soul has simply
nothing to do."
EBD
