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Thu, 18 Aug 1994 11:57:43 EST
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Brenda,

Yes, it is a lovely quote.  Here's another that may entertain you.  I
sometimes use it as an e-mail tag because it captures my feeling for the
computer exactly, though the author, E. F. Benson, was talking about his
experience with the "wireless."  This comes from "Atmospherics" which
appeared in _Radio Times_ for December 1928:

"There is nothing more delightful to the thoroughly unscientific mind
than to control some scientific machine which yields entertaining results,
and which one does not in the least understand."

MT would have been delirious about the computer, don't you think?

Yours,
Bob Champ

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