Thanks for the correction. Robin always did have a knack for a nice turn of phrase.
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Mark Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Jonathan S. Shapiro <[email protected]> wrote: >> Xerox PARC had a wonderful expression: "the moose under the rug", >> which is to say: the big issue that nobody wants to talk about. > > Origin is Robin Hanson, from a conversation at Xanadu. We had just > swept some particular point under the rug. Robin said "I think you > just swept a moose under that rug." It stuck. > > -- > Text by me above is hereby placed in the public domain > > Cheers, > --MarkM > _______________________________________________ > bitc-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.coyotos.org/mailman/listinfo/bitc-dev > > _______________________________________________ bitc-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.coyotos.org/mailman/listinfo/bitc-dev
