Xah Lee wrote: > Software Needs Philosophers > > by Steve Yegge, 2006-04-15. > > Software needs philosophers. > > People don't put much stock in philosophers these days. The popular > impression of philosophy is that it's just rhetoric, just frivolous > debating about stuff that can never properly be answered. “Spare me > the philosophy; let's stick to the facts!” > > The funny thing is, it's philosophers who gave us the ability to think > rationally, to stick to the facts. If it weren't for the work of > countless philosophers, facts would still be getting people tortured > and killed for discovering and sharing them.
Paging Dr Mertz... (http://www.gnosis.cx) Tim C -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
