I read the book but I don't remember that paragraph. As you know, dad was a Naval Officer who achieved respectable rank. I was fascinated by it but he felt that all the pomp and ceremony was BS. If computers are today's sailors, something is lost and something gained.
Frank ----------------------------------- Frank Wimberly My memoir: https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly My scientific publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 Phone (505) 670-9918 On Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 9:53 PM Nick Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: > , I imagine, are old enough to remember this: > > > > *“The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. > If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only > operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and > common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are > mistakes. Learn to quash them. Constantly ask yourself, "How would I do > this if I were a fool?" Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you will > never go wrong.” * > ― Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny > <https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1059565> > > It seems right that the computer was invented by a democratic society > after the largest successful naval campaign in the history of the universe. > The navy was a giant algorithm. Computers are the conscripted sailors of > our generation. > > > > Nick > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > > Clark University > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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