On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 08:08:09PM -0700, Gene Holmerud wrote:
> His reply was not ignoring it.
I was just being difficult.
> Actually, this is a variation of the famous Kurt Godel conundrum of the
> following two sentences:
>
> The following sentence is true.
>
> The preceding sentence is false.
>
> Godel recognized that both of these could not be resolved logically. See
> the book Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R
> Hofstadter. It won an emmy. Hofstadter is also the one who wrote
> Hofstader's Rule: "Everything takes longer than you think, even when you
> take Hofstadter's Rule into account." It won a Murphy's Law corollary
> competition in Omni magazine decades ago.
>
> Gene
Good recommendation. I've got it laying around here somewhere, but I
haven't picked it up since the early 90's. It's time to read it again,
methinks.
--
Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD Users Group
dwchandler@stilyagin.com | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/
http://www.stilyagin.com/ |
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