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From: gh@cs.rochester.edu (Graeme Hirst)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Help--do you know who said/wrote this?
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.160821.11943@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 27 Jun 91 16:08:21 GMT
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>Cindy Sarmiento asks if anyone knows to whom the following quote is
>attributed:
>
>"A year spent in artificial intelligence is 
>enough to make one believe in God."

That's "A year working . . .".    It's Alan Perlis, of course, one of
his famous "Epigrams on programming", SIGPLAN Notices, 17(9), September
1982, pp. 7-13.

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