Re: Newton would be proud

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From: La Monte Yarroll
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 1990 19:23

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In <1990Nov25.004643.29029@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> max@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Max Southall) writes:

>In <9011240110.AA10330@teacake.Eng.Sun.COM> tiemann@Eng.Sun.COM (Michael Tiemann) writes:
>>The irony is complete: the initial logo for Apple was inspried by the
>>story of Newton's apple.  

>I dunno about that; I thought it was a gloss on the erroneous idea about
>the apple being the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, from the
>tree of knowledge. With the logo having a bite taken out of it, we can
>see early on the Apple propensity to bite off knowledge for itself that
>it doesn't want shared!

Alan Turing killed himself by taking a bite out of an apple dipped in
poison.  The Apple I cost $666 when it first came out.  I suspect that
the two Steve's had slightly sick senses of humor.
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From: piggy@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (La Monte Yarroll)
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