James writes:

> "There have always been ghosts in the machine.  Random segments of code that
>  have grouped together to unexpected protocols" ;-)  quoted from iRobot...

I'm very impressed with the level of literacy and poetry of James' response.
In that regard, the longer quote of the same material is:

"Ever since the first computers here have always been ghosts in the machine.
Random segments of code... that have grouped together to form unexpected
protocols. Unanticipated? There free radicals engender questions of free will...
creativity... and even the nature of what we might call the soul."

The moral being: who knows what your forgotten and unexpressed code segments
may evolve into?

However, James does have the title a bit wrong. "iRobot" is the company
founded by Rodney Brooks of MIT's artificial intelligence lab, which makes the
Roomba vaccuum cleaners. "I, Robot" is actually the title of Isaac Asimov's book
series.

To pick a nit... Otherwise, no one I know reads science fiction.

Wirt Atmar

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