By touching the hem in this sense I meant that we’ve got a blindfold on and 
we’re trying to guess what the elephant looks like by touching any one part of 
it.

 

-Carl

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David 
Barbour
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 12:16 PM
To: Fundamentals of New Computing
Subject: Re: [fonc] Final STEP progress report abandoned?

 

 

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Carl Gundel <[email protected]> wrote:

I’m not sure why you think I’m attributing special reverence to computing.  
Break all the rules, please.  ;-)

 

To say you're "touching the hem" generally implies you're also on your knees 
and bowing your head.

 

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