> 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