29 Aug
2011
29 Aug
'11
12:38 p.m.
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:18 PM, aditya siram
I'm afraid you're going to have a lot of OCD's completely miss the point of your email and annoy you with comments about the quote which you'll then have to refute.
I dunno, I found the quote interesting. I had typed up a scornful response to the effect that everyone knows it's a Dijkstra quote and he could find sourcing in seconds with Google, but as the seconds passed, I had to rewrite the seconds bit, then as I found actual cites, I had to rewrite the Dijkstra bit, and then I realized that replying to that email might take a while... -- gwern http://www.gwern.net