On 9/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Christopher Weeks</b> <<a href="mailto:clweeks@gmail.com">clweeks@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/18/07, </span>Eugen Leitl <<a href="mailto:eugen@leitl.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">eugen@leitl.org</a>><span class="gmail_quote">
wrote:</span><br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
If we're lucky, we will become our own successors. If we're less lucky,<br>we will give rise to our successors, and then get left behind. That<br>would suck,</blockquote></div><br></span>Why would that suck? Isn't that what always happens?
<br></blockquote></div><br>Well, one may deem it a more comforting idea that he will become one's own successor rather than he is simply going simply give rise to it, even though most of the difference may consist in a nuance in a metaphor... :-)
<br><br>Stefano Vaj<br>