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Re: A simple guy with a simple problem

• From: Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 15:42:59 -0800

"Simon St.Laurent" wrote:
> I don't think Bob wants to use these things - he has to deal with an
> outside world where people send him such things, and regularly.  That fancy
> wrench isn't anything he wants to use.
> 
> Amazing how there really are people out there who feel convinced they must
> use every feature...

That is human nature. On the one hand, it's why we have any technology
at all -- somebody, sometime, felt the urge to explore simply because
they could. On the other hand, it's why we have the technology we do --
that same somebody couldn't stop themselves. I'll believe that human
nature has changed when I see SUVs replaced by bottom-of-the-line Honda
Civics (or a pair of shoes) and Cuisinarts replaced by a carving knife,
a spoon, and a bowl.

-- Ron

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    • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>

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