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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Mon,  7 Sep 2009 07:34:43 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] nice quote
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i agree the computer industry as a whole tends
to be long on dogma and yet suffers from an accute
inability to recall previous mistakes.

> For some reason, the fact that we program rational machines in logic-
> based languages deludes us into thinking our experience is the same as
> everyone else's or our situation must be the same as everyone else's.
> I don't know anyone who likes to debate a programmer and isn't also a
> programmer; we are undoubtedly the most self-assured and non-
> empathetic group of people on the planet. We have every opportunity to
> be free of dogma, but our reason and our aesthetic reactions seem
> somehow to be soldered directly onto our emotions.

but having lived in washington, dc for a decade, i think
i met a few groups that can be more self-assured.

- erik