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Juan Cires Martinez
jcm at mat.upm.es
Sat Apr 1 15:05:40 CST 2000
> "The sign of a first-rate mind is the ability to keep two opposing thoughts
> in the mind and continue to function"
> fitzgerald perhaps?
There is a very similar quotation in the Hithhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
adventure game, by Douglas Adams. It is as follows:
"Thirty million generations of philosophers have debated the
definition of intelligence. The most popular definition appears in
the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation android manuals: 'Intelligence is
the ability to reconcile totally contradictory situations without
going bonkers -- for example, having a stomach ache and not having a
stomach ache, holding a hole without the doughnut, having good luck
and bad luck simultaneously, or seeing a real state agent waive his
fee.'"
Saludos, Juan.
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