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[ih] XEROX/PUP and Commercialization (was Re: FYI - Gordon Crovitz/WSJ on "Who Really Invented the Internet?")
- Subject: [ih] XEROX/PUP and Commercialization (was Re: FYI - Gordon Crovitz/WSJ on "Who Really Invented the Internet?")
- From: craig at aland.bbn.com (Craig Partridge)
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:04:59 -0400
> But to riff off of a phrase that Marshall Rose coined -- with enough
> thrust, pigs /can/ fly -- some of the alternatives would have required
> planetary levels of thrust.
I think Marshall was riffing off Milo Medin's comment "with enough thrust,
anything can fly" -- give that Milo was at NASA at the time, I wouldn't be
surprised if Milo was using an internal NASA idiom.
Thanks!
Craig