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• A monk said to Joshu, "I have just entered this monastery.
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• Some professors asked a monk to lecture to them on spiritual matters.
  The monk ascended a podium, struck it once with his stick, and descended....
• A student, in hopes of understanding the Lambda-nature, came to Greenblatt.
  As they spoke a Multics system hacker walked by. "Is it true", asked the student, "that PL-1 has many of the same data types as Lisp"....
• A student, in hopes of understanding the Lambda-nature, came to Greenblatt.
  As they spoke a Multics system hacker walked by. "Is it true", asked the student, "that PL-1 has many of the same data types as Lisp?...
• In the days when Sussman was a novice Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
  What are you doing?", asked Minsky. "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe....
• In the days when Sussman was a novice Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
  What are you doing?", asked Minsky. "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe....