Re: Transactions: good or bad?

Costin Cozianu <c_cozianu_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<bccvvt$hsj03$1_at_ID-152540.news.dfncis.de>...
> Alfredo Novoa wrote:
> > Costin Cozianu <c_cozianu_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<bcaktl$h5o40$1_at_ID-152540.news.dfncis.de>...
> >
> >
> >>That's non-sense. Go read good old Dijkstra if you can't read Girard in
> >>French.
> >
> >
> > Dijkstra has lots of writting, can you be more specifical?
> >
>
> Well, I don't have the exact number at hand but he wrote:
>
> "The question whether machines can think is as ill posed as the question
> whether submarines can swim."

A friend sent a pile of quotations to me tonight. This one jumped out at me:

September 14, 1917 Sydney J. Harris;

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

(I think the date must be the birthdate of the person quoted.)

I particularly enjoyed this one too:

February 5, 1900 Adlai Stevenson:

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

Cheers,
Bob Received on Wed Jun 18 2003 - 07:46:49 CEST