Amid the action and reaction of so dense a swarm of humanity,— KNUTH, in The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A:
every possible combination of events may be expected to take place,
and many a little problem will be presented which may be striking and bizarre.
— SHERLOCK HOLMES, in The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (1892)
Combinatorial Algorithms, Part 1 (1997, p. 1)
This morning a colleague sent me an email with a link to a New York Times article about 1984 vs. Brave New World. Face-to-face, she then asked me if I had read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. I confessed that I had not heard of, much less read the book—yet.
Within a couple of hours, I received and opened an email from the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). The message included a summary of and link to an article titled "Will androids dream of quantum sheep?" !
