Discussion of all things related to Public Domain

[Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang AT inria.fr>]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 11:54:47AM -0700, tom poe wrote:
> Hi, Bernard: You're a genius and a scholar, and a gentleman.  Too
> bad you're not single, rich, female!  <grin>

Nobody 's perfect.

Well, actually I am building a collection of quotes, and I try to keep
my sources as accurate as possible.  Your quote is not directly in my
collection, but another part of the same document is.

http://pauillac.inria.fr/~lang/libre/reperes/citations.html

BTW, if you have the beginning of the book by Lewis Lapham, The Agony
of Mammon,  I would like it.  I have it only in French.

Bernard

> Just for the record, I want you to know I am running real close to 100% 
> failure when it comes to Internet cite searching.  So, my hat's off to you 
> on 
> this.  
> Thanks,
> Tom
> http://www.studioforrecording.org/
> http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/
> http://renotahoe.pm.org/
> 
> On Thursday 11 April 2002 11:13, Bernard Lang wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:50:36AM -0700, tom poe wrote:
> > > On Thursday 11 April 2002 10:47, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > > - - -snip - - -
> > >
> > > >         "He who receives an idea from me, receives instructions
> > > >         himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his
> > > >         taper at mine, receives light without darkening me."
> > > >         -- Thomas Jefferson on Copyright
> > >
> > > Hi:  I agree with your take on this.  Too bad for the general public. 
> > > Really like the quote, above.  Any way to track down the cite?
> >
> > Thomas Jefferson, letter to Isaac McPherson, 1813, in Writings of
> > Thomas Jefferson, vol. 6, H.A. Washington, Ed., 1854, pp. 180-181
> > http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/writings/brf/jefl220.htm
> >
> > bernard
> 
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