From: "John P. Linderman" <jpl.jpl@gmail.com>
To: John Adams <jack.adams@ieee.org>
Cc: The Unix Heritage Society <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Dick Haight's one page essay on "You can't fool an honest programmer"
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2019 18:13:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC0cEp8d-3Yzp07a8Tv8wD2yVx-1kXZ-x7fDzTNLfhhpX=86mg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANv4r+ijcXaWgKrm2j64TvenhyHfqRjggeAzapz72HanSJUqpw@mail.gmail.com>
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I contacted Dick. No luck.
*Sorry. Don’t have it myself. Lost a lot of stuff when I left BTL in 1989.
I’d like a dump of my home directory from that time.*
On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 5:08 PM John Adams <jack.adams@ieee.org> wrote:
> Perhaps someone can help me locate a very humorous short
> essay from Dick Haight of PWB (I believe Dick was John Mashey's
> boss at the time) work in Piscataway. I had a paper copy that Dick
> gave me that has long since disappeared in many office moves over
> almost 50 years.
>
> *John "Jack" Lossin Adams*
> *LinkedIn CV <http://lnkd.in/_Q_w7p>* and on *Facebook
> <http://facebook.com/John.Lossin.Adams>*
>
> *If God is your Co-Pilot, you're sitting in the wrong seat!*
>
> Veritas per Scientiam - NJIT motto
>
> *We live at a time when emotions and feelings **count more than **truth,
> and there *
>
> *is a vast ignorance of science. - James Lovelock*
>
> *Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand
> what *
>
> *they **do not manage, and those who manage what they do not *
> *understand. - Archibald Putt*
>
>
> *We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in
> which hardly *
>
> *anyone knows anything about science and technology. - Carl Sagan*
>
>
> *Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, *
> *and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein*
>
>
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