Whoops, forgot to complete my thought

[aiz24 at hotmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 8949

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, aiz24 at h... wrote:
> 
> readbaby said:
> >just a sid point about j.k. rolling's genius; isnt it amazing how 
> >much like the internet tom riddle's diary is? how dangerous is it 
for 
> >a kid to chat with people on the internet that he/she doesnt know? 
> >wow! 
> >your thoughts?
> 
> Oh yeah!  A related point came up in a conversation I had with a 
few 
> colleagues, not about the internet, but just about Palm Pilots.  
One 
> of my colleagues had just gotten one and made a comment about how 
> crazy it is to entrust our lives to machines we don't even remotely 
> understand.  (I often feel like this about my car as well as my 
> computer.)  Another woman said "didn't some famous person say 
that?" 
> and I muttered, half-hoping they wouldn't hear me, "I think it was 
> Harry Potter..."  I knew it was Arthur Weasley but I thought, 
they'll 
> REALLY think I'm nuts if I have to explain who Arthur Weasley is!  
But 
> yet another colleague, who has 2 kids, laughed and gave the exact 
> quote and the character!
> 
> Amy Z.

the exact quote being the dictum, "Never trust anything that can 
think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain."

I should tape that over my computer monitor.

Amy