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echo: philos
to: CLARENCE HOGAN
from: WILLIAM ELLIOT
date: 1998-01-16 01:00:00
subject: Board

 >>> Clarence Hogan on Universes 
 WE>              Error Free Thought
 WE> Results are always obtained by successive approximations.
 WE> If at first you do not succeed, try, try, try again.
 WE> No matter how well first approximations are made, some will require a
 WE> second. The best you can do is get it right the first time, but
 WE> nobody's perfect. 
 CH> 
 CH> HEY Will ole man, I like it, but why can't I try to be perfect!
No problem, you can get as close to perfect as you like. 
 CH> I always tried to teach my carpenters to measure ten times if
 CH> necessary and mark ten times if necessary, the cut the board
 CH> off on the right mark, cause they just hadn't invented board
 CH> stretchers yet!  :)
That's a bit much.  I hear measure twice, cut once.  Or was it measure 
thrice, cut once.  Now I've see some carpenters cut a board one saw width 
shorter.  That was when I was a kid and they did than with a hand saw.  I 
used to collect the thick one's up to a quarter inch thick.
... Quantum mechanics:  the dreams stuff is made of.
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