towlejunior·10 年前·議論Nor is telling me "it's attributed to Grace Hopper." It's a special kind of hell to google something for 20 minutes, return, and have someone throw you a Wikipedia link.Oh, you don't know who the Beechers are. They're from the 1800s.
towlejunior·10 年前·議論That's the thing. There's no particular flourish that makes her version remarkable. It's just a sentence.
towlejunior·10 年前·議論I find it unlikely the first person to express that concept was born in the 20th century.Some places say Henry Ward Beecher (brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe). If I had to guess, though, it's hundreds or thousands of years old.
Oh, you don't know who the Beechers are. They're from the 1800s.