On 17/07/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Arthur</b> <<a href="mailto:ajsiegel@optonline.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ajsiegel@optonline.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote">
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francois schnell wrote:<br><br>><br>> Einstein said that it's ~"hard to understand what you never<br>> experienced" and I believe that's why he also said that "imagination<br>> is more important that knowledge" (ridding a photon to ~"experience"
<br>> relativity, etc ...).<br>><br>Francois,<br><br>I have read the Book of Kay. If it were have the proper effect on me,<br>it would have done so already. Quoting from it to me is therefore to no<br>avail. But I suspect you knew that already.
</blockquote><div><br>To my knowledge Alan Kay never wrote a 'Book' ... I'm then somewhat puzzled by your omniscience and omnipotence ;)<br><br><font size="2">
"If you're looking at something and you don't know where it comes from, if there's no pointer to the source, you can ignore it."<br></font><br>Tim Berners-Lee (WWW 'father')<br><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4132752.stm" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4132752.stm
</a><br><br> </div>cheers,<br><br>francois<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
However I do see why the ability to think independently looms large<br>as an issue to you.<br><br>Good luck getting there.<br><br>Art<br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>