[350] in Humor
HUMOR: Short bits
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abennett@MIT.EDU)
Tue Jul 12 10:22:17 1994
From: abennett@MIT.EDU
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 94 10:16:31 EDT
As I recall, Werner vonBraun also made a statement to the effect that humans
were not only the most versatile computer system ever invented, but also the
only one that could be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
-Drew
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 1994 11:03:58 -0600 (MDT)
From: Espacionaute Spiff domine! <MATOSSIAN%ARIES@VAXF.Colorado.EDU>
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 1994 19:50:17 -0400
From: dave-barry@marble.com (Keith Bostic)
Forwarded-by: kole@hydra.convex.com (John P. Kole)
The Economist on Science & Technology:
There is no practical reason to create machine intelligences
indistinguishable from human ones. People are in plentiful
supply. Should a shortage arise, there are proven and popular
methods for making more. The point of using machines ought to be
they perform differently than people, and preferably better.
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 1994 07:14:50 -0400
From: dave-barry@marble.com (Keith Bostic)
Subject: ohnosecond, n:
From: "Ronald M. Anderson (2-2225)" <ron-anderson@VNET.IBM.COM>
+ OHNOSECOND: Time between pressing Enter +
+ and realizing you did something terribly +
+ and irrevocably wrong. +
