[ExI] ai in education

[John Clark]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 7:21 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

*>> "Vengeance is a dish best served cold" comes from a Star Trek movie.*
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> *From a quick Google:While often associated with Star Trek II: The Wrath
> of Khan or The Godfather, the sentiment appeared earlier in the 1846
> translation of Eugène Sue’s Mathilde ("revenge is very good eaten cold")
> and similar, older proverbs about vengeance.*
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*Google's Ngram viewer indicates that if Star Trek didn't originate the
phrase it certainly popularized it in the English language, there's not
even a blip of increased popularity of it around 1846. There was a very
small uptick in popularity of the phrase in 1911 but by 1914 it had died
out completely, I have no idea of the cause of that.  And "Revenge is very
good eaten cold" produces nothing. *

*By the way it's fun to play around with Ngram*

*Vengeance is a dish best served cold
<https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Vengeance+is+a+dish+best+served+cold&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=0&case_insensitive=false>*

*John K Clark*
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