[OT] Re: Why isn't Mickey Mouse using Smalltalk?

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at disney.com
Wed May 9 19:24:51 UTC 2001


It's only amusing for the Supreme Being ....

At 1:13 PM -0500 5/9/01, Dwight Hughes wrote:
>The universe all makes sense (even humans) once you realize that it 
>was all created by the Supreme Being for His own amusement and 
>entertainment. And what could be funnier than monkeys too clever for 
>their own good running around puffed up with self importance.
>
>-- Dwight
>
>At 11:31 AM 05/09/2001, Tim Rowledge wrote:
>>Alan Kay wrote:
>>>
>>>  I think Mickey as the Deus Ex Machina has declaimed: "Thou shalt have
>>>  no other mouse before me!"
>>Personally I'll place my faith in the Doofus ex machina. Seems a more
>>reasonable explanation of the world as I see it.
>>
>>tim
>>--
>>...and we programmed in ones and in zeroes, and sometimes we ran out of ones!





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