On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: <a whole lot of really good points elided>
As you can probably tell, I've never read many secondary or tertiary sources.
I have a very hard time believeing that anyone would consider VN a "secondary" or "tertiary" source.
(ie, as a physicist I've always considered it of dubious usefulness to read ABOUT physics...) I've only read the few more famous von Neumann journal articles I've come across w.r.t. cellular automata...I actually thought he had only written two or three,
That's only because he's hard reading :-) -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org "Unbridled nationalism, as distinguished from a sane and legitimate patriotism, must give way to a wider loyalty, to the love of humanity as a whole. Bah'u'llh's statement is: "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." The Promise of World Peace http://www.us.bahai.org/interactive/pdaFiles/pwp.htm