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>From: clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke)
Subject: Amusing Quotation
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I came across the following in _Discrete thoughts : essays on mathematics,  
science, and philosophy_ by Mark Kac,Gian-Carlo Rota, and Jacob T. Schwartz.   
[Boston :Birkhauser, 1986] The quotations are from Rota (a combinatorist).

  The computer is just an instrument for doing faster what we already know how  
to do slower.  All pretension to computer intelligence and paradise-tomorrow  
promise should be toned down before the public turns away in disgust.  And if  
that should happen, our civilization might not survive.(p 263)
   
  How much longer will the present "folie" for precision in philosophy last?   
Need a concept be precise in order to be meaningful and effective?  Or do  
philosophers wish to commit hara-kari on the altar of mathematics?
  When a philosopher writes well one can forgive him anything, even being an
analytic philosopher.(p 264)
 


