Re: [Haskell-cafe] the problem of design by negation

On Tue, 26 May 2009, Richard O'Keefe wrote:

I have one of Brian Marick's (www.exampler.com) stickers on my door. It reads to be less wrong than yesterday

Two quotes I often give my students: Brethren, I beseech you in the bowels of Christ, consider it _possible_ that you _may_ be wrong. Oliver Cromwell

Fear most of all to _remain_ in error. Me, deliberately misquoting Kierkegaard, quoting Socrates. I changed 'be' to 'remain'.

Along similar lines, Esther Dyson's .sig says "Always make new mistakes!" Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch http://dotat.at/ GERMAN BIGHT HUMBER: SOUTHWEST 5 TO 7. MODERATE OR ROUGH. SQUALLY SHOWERS. MODERATE OR GOOD.