Re: [NTLK] OT: Cockroach quote

From: good-dog_at_northshore.net
Date: Wed Feb 06 2002 - 19:30:13 EST


I found it! Can it go without saying that Windows can be substituted
for DOS?

Mark

"DOS computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and
    millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70
million machines in use
  worldwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that
cockroaches are far more
   numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher
life form." --
                              The New York Times, November 26, 1991.

Steven wrote:
>
> Is that the quote that says that after all humans are dead the cockroaches
> will still be multiplying?
> Or was that the Mac vs. PC quote?
>
> Steven
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> good-dog_at_northshore.net
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 3:56 PM
> To: newtontalk
> Subject: [NTLK] OT: Cockroach quote
>
> >Just because Windows users vastly outnumber Mac users, numbers alone do not
> >denote a higher form of life. Cockroaches outnumber humans many times over,
> >and no one says a cockroach is better than a human.
>
> I think this quote is a derivative of another, an original quote from
> someone in a magazine article. Am I wrong here? There was the same
> Windows/Mac, cockroach/human comparison. Any one remember?
>
> Mark
>

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