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On 2018-07-15, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Gareth's Downstairs Computer
><headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On 15/07/2018 11:03, Huge wrote:
>>> 
>>> I find the word "ripoff" problematical. Virtually everything in computer
>>> science is based on something else. Thinking "that's a good idea" and
>>> re-using it in a new and interesting way is hardly "ripping off".
>>> 
>> 
>> ISTR that it was Isaac Newton who said that we stand on the shoulders
>> of giants.
>> 
>
> Or, midgets are standing on my shoulders.
>

Hey, good!.. Newton was also an alchemist. 



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