Re: [silk] More from Bill Joy

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <silk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sudhakar Chandra [Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:14:33AM -0700]:

> Reminds me of a bit that James Burke (The 'Connections' guy) said in his
> PARC lecture.  Inventions / discoveries have consequences that people
> never imagined of.  The printing press indirectly contributed to the
> Protestant Reformation, for example.  This is the very nature of change.
 
 Or the Lama in Kipling's "Kim".

 "Chela, you have loosed an act upon this world.  Like a pebble tossed into a
 pond ... ripples ..." (you get the general idea, I'm quoting from a rather
 leaky memory right now) :)
 
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