Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!mit-eddie!rh From: rh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Randy Haskins) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: A.C. Clarke quote Message-ID: <1905@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Mon, 21-May-84 18:20:46 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.1905 Posted: Mon May 21 18:20:46 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 22-May-84 19:14:59 EDT References: <2044@usceast.UUCP> <7279@unc.UUCP> Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 8 (Stolen from the Boston Globe) The author, speaking to a meeting of aerospace engineers and businessmen in Washington recently, said: "If we'd had governent- sponsored research in the Stone Age, by now we'd have wonderful flint tools. But we'd never have come up with steel." -- Randwulf (Randy Haskins); Path= genrad!mit-eddie!rh