Re: What do you do with your old computers?

<docdwarf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> In article <638rvkF2673qaU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Pete Dashwood <dashwood@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>>I agree with you regarding which consultant I'd rather have, and I
>>emphatically agree there is no such thing as "useless knowledge".
>
> 'Use' (from 'uti') and 'knowledge' (from 'gnosis') may or may not be
made
> to relate to each other.
>
>>
>>(There may be knowledge you haven't found a use for yet... but you never
>>know. :-)
>
> I was taught something along the lines of the attutitude demonstrated in
>
<http://books.google.com/books?id=j2M6AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA7&dq=%22Euclid+recognized+the+truth%22>
>
> --begin quoted text:
>
> Euclid recognized the truth that knowledge for its own sake is worth
> while, even if it cannot be used for practical ends.  The story goes
that
> he was once asked by a pupil who had just begun the study of geometry,
> 'What do you gain by learning all this?'  Euclid ordered his servant to
> give him some coppers, 'since he must have gain out of what he learns.'
>
> --end quoted text
>
Great story! Thanks for that, Doc.

Pete.
-- 
"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."