From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news2.kpn.net!news.kpn.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc3.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader3.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Design patterns for Lisp References: <878zct1o7g.fsf@noetbook.telent.net> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3216157980834776@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 01:13:01 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader3.kpnqwest.net 1007169181 193.71.66.49 (Sat, 01 Dec 2001 02:13:01 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 02:13:01 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:21592 * Bijan Parsia | In the oft-quote phrase from Alan Kay, "The best way to predict the | future is to invent it." | | There is, of course, the lesser known phrase from Bill Gates(*), "The | best way to invent the future is to co-opt/buy/steal it." I thought Bill Gates' take on it was "the best way to predict the future is to reinvent it". /// -- The past is not more important than the future, despite what your culture has taught you. Your future observations, conclusions, and beliefs are more important to you than those in your past ever will be. The world is changing so fast the balance between the past and the future has shifted.