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From: cpshelley@violet.waterloo.edu (cameron shelley)
Subject: Re: Help--do you know who said/wrote this?
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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1991 18:48:08 GMT
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In article <1991Jun27.160821.11943@cs.rochester.edu> gh@cs.rochester.edu (Graeme Hirst) writes:
>>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.

"I've always said, there's nothing an agnostic can't do if he doesn't
know whether he believes in anything or not."  Graham Chapman in the
_Bells_ sketch.

				Cam