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[cs-ugrads] Fwd: [IP] Quote of the day

From: cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Lazowska
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Subject: [cs-ugrads] Fwd: [IP] Quote of the day

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From: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
Date: Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:39 PM
Subject: [IP] Quote of the day
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From: “Jonathan S. Shapiro” <shap@eros-os.org>
Date: May 19, 2010 3:34:12 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: Quote of the day

[For IP]

From the New York Times, front page of today’s Business Day section (5/19/2010):

Information technology and manure have a symbiotic relationship.”

– Chandrakant D. Patel,

HP Sustainable Information technology Laboratory

The NYT article was about using cow manure to help power data centers, but the I think quote holds up pretty well on its own. 🙂

Jonathan S. Shapiro

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