[FRIAM] Few of you ...

[Frank Wimberly]

I read the book but I don't remember that paragraph.  As you know, dad was
a Naval Officer who achieved respectable rank.  I was fascinated by it but
he felt that all the pomp and ceremony was BS.  If computers are today's
sailors, something is lost and something gained.

Frank

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On Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 9:53 PM Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net
wrote:

> , I imagine, are old enough to remember this:
>
>
>
> *“The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots.
> If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only
> operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and
> common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are
> mistakes. Learn to quash them. Constantly ask yourself, "How would I do
> this if I were a fool?" Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you will
> never go wrong.” *
> ― Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny
> <https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1059565>
>
> It seems right that the computer was invented by a democratic society
> after the largest successful naval campaign in the history of the universe.
> The navy was a giant algorithm.   Computers are the conscripted sailors of
> our generation.
>
>
>
> Nick
>
> Nicholas S. Thompson
>
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>
> Clark University
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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