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- From: columbus@strident.think.com (Michael Weiss)
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- Subject: Credit (was: Chaitin's Omega and QM)
- Date: 16 Dec 92 09:41:36
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- In-reply-to: victor@watson.ibm.com's message of Tue, 15 Dec 1992 23:04:24 GMT
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- In article <VICTOR.92Dec15180424@terse.watson.ibm.com>
- victor@watson.ibm.com (Victor Miller) has the sig:
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- "Great artists steal; lesser artists borrow" Igor Stravinsky
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- Ironically, I'd always heard that quote credited to T.S. Eliot. But who
- knows.
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- A conversation attributed (in Bartlett's) to James Whistler and Oscar Wilde:
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- JW: [witticism]
- OW: I wish I'd said that!
- JW: You will, Oscar, you will.
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