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From: jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Subject: [COFF] Fwd: Old and Tradition was [TUHS] V9 shell
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 11:28:20 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200212162820.3A3BC18C0B6@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)

    > From: Clem Cole

    > Noel's email has much wisdom. New is not necessarily better and old
    > fashioned is not always a bad thing.

For those confused by the reference, it's to an email that didn't go to the
whole list (I was not sure if people would be interested):

    >> One of my favourite sayings (original source unknown; I saw it in
    >> "Shockwave Rider"): "There are two kinds of fool. One says 'This is
    >> old, and therefore good'; the other says 'This is new, and therefore
    >> better'."

	Noel


             reply	other threads:[~2020-02-12 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-12 16:28 jnc [this message]
2020-02-12 18:13 ` clemc
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-02-11 18:41 [COFF] " clemc
     [not found] ` <CAP2nic2C4-m_Epcx7rbW2ssbS850ZFiLKiL+hg1Wxbcwoaa1vQ@mail.gmail.com>
2020-02-12  0:57   ` [COFF] Fwd: " athornton
2020-02-12  1:58     ` clemc
2020-02-12  3:01       ` lm
2020-02-12 18:12         ` clemc
2020-02-12 21:55           ` cym224
2020-02-12 22:11           ` imp
2020-02-12 22:45             ` sauer
2020-02-12 23:05               ` lm
2020-02-13  6:57             ` peter
2020-02-16 21:47           ` wobblygong
2020-02-16 22:10             ` clemc
2020-02-16 22:45               ` krewat
2020-02-16 23:50               ` bakul
2020-02-18  0:17                 ` dave
2020-02-18 12:48                   ` jpl.jpl
2020-02-24  9:40         ` ik
2020-02-24 15:19           ` lm
2020-02-24 16:27             ` clemc

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