From: rshepard@salmo.appl-ecosys.com   
      
   On 2004-02-20, EarlCox  wrote:   
      
   > Yes, I'm guilty of biasing and disrupting and rudely inflaming the entire   
   > discussion, my one dismissive sentence certainly tainted the thread and,   
   > of course, since you have been victimized by my apparent indifference to   
   > your assertions on the meaning of fuzzy implication, you have taken refuge   
   > in the security of the infallible thoughts of your seniors.   
      
   Earl/Bill,   
      
     You two are lifting your leg on the wrong tree and responding to a planted   
   scent. The core issue is that we have a supposed-Ph.D. student telling two   
   adult practitioners who have developed their own productive software and   
   used it for more than two decades to build working systems that solved real   
   problems that he knows more than you two do!   
      
     I wonder how his dissertation advisor and other committee members feel   
   about having a student who believes -- even if he doesn't tell them directly   
   -- that he know more than they.   
      
     It is only when one grows up -- if that occurs at all -- that one realizes   
   how much there is to know and how little one really knows. Over the decades   
   I've realized that I have many more questions than I have answers. It's   
   encouraging that the Italian university system is producing graduates who   
   have all the answers, even if they don't know any of the questions.   
      
   Rich   
      
   --   
   Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President   
   Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)   
      
      
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