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From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.bio
Subject: Re: great people
Message-ID: <544@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-Jul-86 19:21:46 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 30 19:21:46 1986
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In article <120@sas.UUCP>, jcz@sas.UUCP (Carl Zeigler) writes:
) In article <12305@amdcad.UUCP>, phil@amdcad.UUCP writes:
) > I nominate Donald Knuth of Stanford. Watson and Crick (sp?) who
) > discovered the structure of DNA.  I don't know of any current music or
) > art of lasting value, however.
) 
) I would say that there are a porportionate number of 'great persons'
) in the world today.  However, there are lots of them, so they don't
) seem so great, and many of them are too weak from hunger to exhibit their
) greatness.

Or they're too smart to let people find out about them!

You might have added that in the electronic world, nobody
wants art or music of lasting value.  We want to produce
as much art as we consume.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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