«

Just had to share this quote from<
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/02/analog_or_digital/page2.html> by a
Dr Bill Softky, who also got a patent-award prize from Microsoft even
though he never worked for them, but that's another story entirely...

The quote is: "The threshold for disproving something is higher than the
threshold for saying it, which is a recipe for the accumulation of
bullshit".

He was talking about theories of brain function, but it seems an apt summary
of USENET, don't you think.

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> The quote is: "The threshold for disproving something is higher than the
> threshold for saying it, which is a recipe for the accumulation of
> bullshit".
>
> He was talking about theories of brain function, but it seems an apt summary
> of USENET, don't you think.

It also explains how President Bush has avoided being impeached and
imprisoned.

In article <435b67de$>,
says...
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
> > The quote is: "The threshold for disproving something is higher than the
> > threshold for saying it, which is a recipe for the accumulation of
> > bullshit".
> >
> > He was talking about theories of brain function, but it seems an apt summary
> > of USENET, don't you think.
>
> It also explains how President Bush has avoided being impeached and
> imprisoned.

That was a mistake wasn't it, you really meant to put your own name in
there not Bush.

"Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <_zealand> wrote in message
news:djfa0h$oj9$...
> Just had to share this quote from<
> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/02/analog_or_digital/page2.html> by
a
> Dr Bill Softky, who also got a patent-award prize from Microsoft even
> though he never worked for them, but that's another story entirely...
>
> The quote is: "The threshold for disproving something is higher than the
> threshold for saying it, which is a recipe for the accumulation of
> bullshit".

Sounds like a sig file

PAM.