From: Jason Spencer (spencer@ualberta.ca)
Date: Tue Jul 13 1999 - 01:35:23 MDT
At 11:45 AM +1000 7/13/1999, O'Regan, Emlyn wrote:
>> I expect that many things which look promising today will be complete
>> duds five years from now, and in 20 years the big news will be coming
>> from something we haven't even considered today.
>>
>> Hal
>>
>I'd very much hope that this is the case. Otherwise we might get the false
>impression that we are on top of this whole progress gig.
>
>Being wrong is a lot more interesting than being right
>
>Emlyn
Reminds me of this quote:
"You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please
wait until I am wrong."
- John von Neumann, on being phoned at 10 a.m.
-Jason
-- Jason Spencer spencer@ualberta.ca http://www.ualberta.ca/~spencer/
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