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[at-l] word up



what's wild to me is that, in a very real sense, it's all reducible to a
bunch of "on-off" binary combinations . . . is that all there is????

thru-thinker

greyowl@rcn.com wrote:

> Put a million thru hikers on word processors they would eventually recreate all the great works of Shakespeare.
>
> Grey Owl
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>>The great thing about a blank word-processor screen is that it pre-supposes
>>all possible combination of letters and words strung together.  In
>>blankness, all the endless possibilities would exist.  That would be very
>>Zen, if my computer was Buddhist, but it's an IBM...
>>
>>Shane
>>
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