From: Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: <Damian Y>  Re: It's back, but the ...
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 22:18:02 -0600
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Andrew Jones wrote:
> 
> > They have to be educated then!
> 
> Right... well, get started.

Here it goes:

A computer is like a violin.  You can imagine a novice trying first a
phonograph and then a violin.  The latter, he says, sounds terrible. 
That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our
computer scientists.  Computer programs are good, they say, for a
particular purpose, but they aren't flexible.  Neither is a violin, or a
typewriter, until you learn how to use it.

---Marvin Minsky

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Weiqi Gao
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