Time Flies Like an Arrow, Fruit Flies Like a Banana

[Joel S. Berson]

You don't want to ask Tony Oettinger?  Either for an off-print of the
article, or notes from his late 1950s class?

At 11/14/2006 09:22 PM, you wrote:
>         Does anyone have access to the Scientific American article,
>perhaps on JSTOR?  That still seems to be the earliest hard cite we've
>come up with and is probably the vector for the quotation's original
>popularization.  Of course, the Sci. Am. Article itself may cite to an
>earlier source.  I remember reading a discussion of the aphorism in the
>mid-1970s, so I knew that the 1982 cite was too late.
>
>
>John Baker
>
>
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>It certainly predates 1982, because I remember it from my intro to
>linguistics class at Swarthmore (Spring 1979).
>
>Barbara
>
>Barbara Need
>UChicago
>
> >The Yale Book of Quotations notes that there is no reason to believe
> >that this quotation, often attributed to Groucho Marx, was actually
> >said by him and that it appeared on Usenet on 7/9/1982.  In J.A.
> >Barnes, Models and Inpretations:  Selected Essays 167 (1990), it is
> >cited to Oettinger, The Uses of Computers in Science, Scientific
> >American 215(3):  161 - 72 (1966).
> >
> >
> >John Baker
> >
> >
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