He is a stranger to me, but he is a most remarkable man — and I am the other 
one. Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known, and I 
know the rest.
  --Statement (1906) in Mark Twain in Eruption: Hitherto Unpublished Pages 
About Men and Events (1940) edited by Bernard DeVoto

-djl

On Aug 20, 2011, at 6:16 AM, Alan Kay wrote:

> (For example)
> 
> Try to imagine a system where the parts only receive messages but never 
> explicitly send them.
> 
> This is one example of what I meant when I requested that computer people pay 
> more attention to what is in between the parts, than to the parts -- the 
> Japanese have a great short word for it: "ma" -- we don't, and that's a clue 
> that we have a hard time with "what is in between"
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alan
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