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

Dwight Hughes dwighth at ipa.net
Wed May 9 18:33:45 UTC 2001


Comedy is when it happens to someone else. Tragedy is when it happens to you.

-- Dwight

At 02:24 PM 05/09/2001, Alan Kay wrote:
>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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