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Truth Is Not Determined By Majority Vote. -- Doug Gwy
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Truth is not determined by majority vote.
-- Doug Gwyn
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GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions.
-- Doug Gwyn (22/Jun/91 in comp.unix.wizards)...
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
-- Doug Gwy...
UNIX was never designed to keep people from doing stupid things, because that policy would also keep them from doing clever things.
-- Doug Gwyn (1 Aug 90)...
The idea that an arbitrary naive human should be able to properly use a given tool without training or understanding is even more wrong for computing than it is for other tools (e.
g. automobiles, airplanes, guns, power saws). -- Doug Gwy...
In a Democracy, decisions are made by a majority. Not by a majority of the people, but by a majority of that minority enfranchised to vote.
Not just those who can vote. The minority is made up entirely of those who do vote, and that is quite a minority indeed that makes the decisions for a Democracy....
The truth is not always the same as the majority decision. --Pope Jean Paul
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority.
Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people....
In 1928, Charles King was re-elected President of Liberia with a majority of 600,000.
His opponent claimed that the vote had been rigged as there were only 15,000 people eligible to vote!...
Regards, Doug