Big development in the GUI realm
Fred Pacquier
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Tue Feb 8 04:49:42 EST 2005
Robert Kern <rkern at ucsd.edu> said :
>> that's Hanlon, not Heinlein. to be on the safe side, I won't attempt
>> to attribute your mistake to anything.
>
> Fair enough. The only time I've seen it in dead-tree print was in
> Heinlein's _Time Enough For Love_, unattributed to anyone else.
> Googlespace seems to be not entirely sure whether "Hanlon" is real or
> is a corruption of "Heinlein". Googling for quote attributions is a
> tricky proposition at best, though.
I don't know who Mr Hanlon is, but I've previously seen it attributed to
Napoleon Buonaparte. Never been able to verify that either, though.
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