Yes, yes, etc; .. but this is all taking things a little ~too~ literally, isn't
it? Are we not all allowed to be a little rhetorical and exuberant from time to
time? Almost every happy child avers that his/her mother is 'the best mum in
the world' - do we start quibbling about it, or just enjoy the devotion?

I still vote for wine, over coffee...

Richard Dobson

=cw4t7abs wrote:

> > This is why CSound is one of mankind's greatest creations to date.
> > I think I'm going to cry.
>
> visibly ailing Mr.
>                       Graham talked at length about Blaise Pascal: Pascal,
> he said, was kind
>                       of a 17th-century technology entrepreneur. He had
> invented differential
>                       calculus and probability theory, created the
> Pascaline calculating
>                       machine, and built Paris's first buses. "But in the
> end," Mr. Graham
>                       said, "Pascal knew that technology could not solve
> man's great
>                       questions: why we suffer, why there is evil, and why
> we die. He
>                       trusted, instead, in Jesus. As I have learned to do."
>
>                       Mr. Graham ended by saying he would not live to see
> the world that
>                       TED's attendees had been so enthusiastically
> imagining; he was dying.
>                       But he hoped that we would remember the example of
> Pascal. There
>                       wasn't a dry eye in the house.
>
> mankind's greatest creation to date = 1.5.98+o