29-09-2000 16:36									#1
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You know, the one that sometimes flashes up after posting.

I think "posible" is spelled wrong there.

	29-09-2000 17:15									#2
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test

	29-09-2000 17:16									#3
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it's Mark Twain...

is it appears after posting or editing?

edit: test
edit2 : nope, it's stefu's canteloupe.

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	29-09-2000 17:45									#4
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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Builder on 09-29-2000 08:16 AM</font>
it's Mark Twain...

is it appears after posting or editing?

edit: test
edit2 : nope, it's stefu's canteloupe.

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I think it appears after 'reply with quote'.

Edit: well, it's Mark Twain allright, but the word possible doesn't occur there:
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</font>"It is better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt"
-Mark Twain
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	29-09-2000 18:01									#5
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maybe it's when you post a new topic?

	29-09-2000 18:27									#6
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Yes, I had the same thought and tested it, the Clark quote appears after posting a new topic and there is indeed a typo there:
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</font>"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is posible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong."
-Arthur C. Clarke
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	29-09-2000 19:07									#7
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Thank god for that, I was beginning to doubt myself.

WOuld have had to change my name to Thomas.

	29-09-2000 19:41									#8
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I'd just like to express my agreement with the quote (in its correctly spelt form of course).

Naturally it overrides Occam's Razor (for anyone who disagrees with my beliefs)

	30-09-2000 09:01									#9
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OK, now that Paul has found out where the original 'New Quotes' thread was, I must say that I feel I am a bit responsible for the typo, as far as I typed it incorrectly when I suggested the quote.

Note: but that's nothing compared to the pride I feel because the quote was indeed implepented by MarkG and DanQ...

And, yes, Gary, I find the sentence absolutely true.

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	01-10-2000 10:56									#10
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I like another Arthur C. Clarke quote better:<blockquote>Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.</blockquote>
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	01-10-2000 12:09									#11
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I prefer its corollary:

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	02-10-2000 00:39									#12
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<center><table width=80%><tr><td><font color=000080 face="Verdana" size=2><font size="1">quote:
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</font>"It is better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt"
-Mark Twain
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I really, really like that quote, especially in the context it is used here

	02-10-2000 02:07									#13
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UR: So you prefer Clarke's Third Law to his First. Does anyone remember the Second?

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for a moment here I thought that JEtW would be complaining about it...my mistake.

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Stefu got a quote??? I gotta see this...where's mine???
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	02-10-2000 09:52									#16
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<center><table width=80%><tr><td><font color=000080 face="Verdana" size=2><font size="1">quote:
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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Murgatroyd on 10-01-2000 05:07 PM</font>
UR: So you prefer Clarke's Third Law to his First. Does anyone remember the Second?
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I remember that the Brits were going to knight the old gent, but then rumors started to surface about his sexual preferences, and the Brits sort of put a hold on the knighting. Them Brits are just conservatives at heart. <-- In the general direction of the UK

Not that I remember his Second Law...
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	02-10-2000 11:45									#17
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the Second Law is(I translate to English from the Greek translation )
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</font>The only way to discover the limits of what is possible, is to risk a little bit inside the impossibe
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	02-10-2000 16:04									#18
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Mao,

You of all people should have noticed it!

Markos,

Not a poor translation, here's the original:

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</font>"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."
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BTW, anyone knows what Clark's 69th law is? That's my personal favourite
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	02-10-2000 16:48									#19
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"the Brits sort of put a hold on the knighting"

IIRC the media said that Arthur asked for the postponement himself, to avoid embarassment, until he could clear his name. (But that might have just been media speculation).

	03-10-2000 02:36									#20
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<center><table width=80%><tr><td><font color=000080 face="Verdana" size=2><font size="1">quote:
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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Locutus on 10-02-2000 07:04 AM</font>
BTW, anyone knows what Clark's 69th law is? That's my personal favourite

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	03-10-2000 12:02									#21
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<center><table width=80%><tr><td><font color=000080 face="Verdana" size=2><font size="1">quote:
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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Murgatroyd on 10-02-2000 05:36 PM</font>
'Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.'
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That's quite old I'm afraid. Now we don't need to read hardware manuals, it's the software that's the bugger

	03-10-2000 17:16									#22
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Well, there are still people out there who like messing around with hardware (like me) and most software you don't need manuals for these days. With all those annoying wizards and paperclips (where's that puke-smilie when you need it ) and stuff like that, even my parents can learn to work with it

But even with regard to software I recognize the feeling

	03-10-2000 23:08									#23
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<center><table width=80%><tr><td><font color=000080 face="Verdana" size=2><font size="1">quote:
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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Urban Ranger on 10-03-2000 03:02 AM</font>
That's quite old I'm afraid. Now we don't need to read hardware manuals, it's the software that's the bugger

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Not only that, but it's nearly impossible to find manuals for hardware or software these days.

I hate online documentation.

Murgatroyd

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	04-10-2000 00:29									#24
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Murgatroyd,

You have a point there.


How the hell did this thread go from a typo in one of the quotes to the availability of hard/software manuals?

	09-10-2000 13:50									#25
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All hail the thread drift god