In a message dated 9/6/2005 9:09:39 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and > practice. In practice there is." [Yogi Berra] > This bears an erudition uncharacteristic of Yogi. Wikiquote: Linkname: Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut - Wikiquote URL: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jan_L._A._van_de_Snepscheut ... cites Prof.Dr. Edsger W. Dijkstra as attributing it (unverifiably) to Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut. I thought about adding "attibuted to" to that quote, then unfortunately decided not to. One can always be safe in attributing nearly any quote to nearly anyone. I even spoke this quote once in a technical presentation as a joke, without attribution, and long before I thought it had been said by Yogi Berra (which it might well have been). Anyone who heard me say that could then correctly attribute it to me. And so on. This, of course, is a sophomoric yet fertile way to weasel out of my error and many such future errors. Thanks for the correction. Bill Fairchild ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
