RE: Loading PTF Cover Letters from CD-Rom

[Eric Kempter <noerick.norcal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Given this, I believe that Invention is also the grandmother of invention.

On Thursday, May 11, 2000 10:58 AM, John Earl [SMTP:johnearl@400security.com] 
wrote:
| 
| "Walden H. Leverich" wrote:
| > 
| > If necessity is the mother of invention, laziness is the father...
| 
| Necessity is not the mother of invention....   Invention is the
| mother of necessity.
| 
| Think about it.  The Automobile, the Airplane, the electric light,
| the phonograph, the telephone, the Personal Computer, etc.  All of
| these are used extensively now for reasons that their inventors
| could not possibly have imagined.   They were not "needed", when
| they were invented, but now that we've found good use for them we
| could not possibly imagine living without them.
| 
| Due Credit:  I've been reading "Guns Germs and Steel" by Jared
| Diamond, and the above thought was lifted directlyfrom that
| book.   I highly recommend the book.
| 
| jte
| 
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