[Haskell-cafe] the problem of design by negation

[Tony Finch]

On Tue, 26 May 2009, Richard O'Keefe wrote:
>
> I have one of Brian Marick's (www.exampler.com) stickers on my door.
> It reads
> 	to be less wrong than yesterday
>
> Two quotes I often give my students:
> 	Brethren, I beseech you in the bowels of Christ,
> 	consider it _possible_ that you _may_ be wrong.
> 		Oliver Cromwell
>
> 	Fear most of all to _remain_ in error.
> 		Me, deliberately misquoting Kierkegaard,
> 		quoting Socrates.  I changed 'be' to 'remain'.

Along similar lines, Esther Dyson's .sig says "Always make new mistakes!"

Tony.
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