Re: OT - quote of Picasso

2009-10-19 Thread Thierry
Le 19 oct. 09 à 01:57, Mick Collins a écrit : Computers are useless. They only give you answers. Pablo Picasso The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows. Frank Zappa

Re: OT - quote of Picasso

2009-10-19 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Thierry wrote: Le 19 oct. 09 à 01:57, Mick Collins a écrit : Computers are useless. They only give you answers. Pablo Picasso The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows. Frank

Re: OT - quote of Picasso

2009-10-19 Thread Ian Wood
On 19 Oct 2009, at 09:40, Richmond Mathewson wrote: To which I would add, lest we forget: A computer is only as good as the person in front of it! Going a bit further OT, one of my headmasters liked to say that computers were more intelligent than a brick, but less intelligent than

Re: OT - quote of Picasso

2009-10-19 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Oct 19, 2009, at 4:40 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Thierry wrote: Le 19 oct. 09 à 01:57, Mick Collins a écrit : Computers are useless. They only give you answers. Pablo Picasso The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design,

Re: OT - quote of Picasso

2009-10-19 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Ian Wood wrote: On 19 Oct 2009, at 09:40, Richmond Mathewson wrote: To which I would add, lest we forget: A computer is only as good as the person in front of it! Going a bit further OT, one of my headmasters liked to say that computers were more intelligent than a brick, but less

Re: OT - quote of Picasso

2009-10-19 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Peter Brigham MD wrote: On Oct 19, 2009, at 4:40 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Thierry wrote: Le 19 oct. 09 à 01:57, Mick Collins a écrit : Computers are useless. They only give you answers. Pablo Picasso The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the

Re: OT - quote of Picasso

2009-10-19 Thread Judy Perry
Well, what I formerly would point out to students is that the difference between a computer and a human being is that only a human being can decide what questions are worth asking, and therefore also worth answering... Google can give you answers (maybe!). See The General episode of The