Big development in the GUI realm

Robert Kern rkern at ucsd.edu
Tue Feb 8 06:12:29 EST 2005


Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Robert Kern wrote:
> 
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> if that's true, it would seem that it predates the Hanlon reference by a
> couple of years:
> 
>     http://www.statusq.org/archives/2001/12/04
> 
> on the other hand, Google tells me that "Time Enough For Love" con-
> tains a couple of other famous stupidity quotes, including:
> 
>     "Never underestimate the power of human stupidity"
> 
> do you still have a copy of the book?  (preferrably a version printed
> before 1980...)

Not at the moment. I'll try to hit up some used book stores or libraries.

-- 
Robert Kern
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  Are the graves of dreams allowed to die."
   -- Richard Harter



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