On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: <a whole lot of really good points elided>
> As you can probably tell, I've never read many secondary or tertiary > sources. I have a very hard time believeing that anyone would consider VN a "secondary" or "tertiary" source. > (ie, as a physicist I've always considered it of dubious usefulness > to read ABOUT physics...) I've only read the few more famous von Neumann > journal articles I've come across w.r.t. cellular automata...I actually > thought he had only written two or three, That's only because he's hard reading :-) -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Unbridled nationalism, as distinguished from a sane and legitimate patriotism, must give way to a wider loyalty, to the love of humanity as a whole. Bah'u'llh's statement is: "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." The Promise of World Peace http://www.us.bahai.org/interactive/pdaFiles/pwp.htm