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Pete’s 2nd Law of Computing

Whenever the word ontology is used in a technical context, what is being promoted is likely of limited practical value.

Pete’s 1st Law of Computing

Posted by Pete on Thursday, February 22, 2007, at 4:27 pm. Filed under Tech. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

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  1. Steve Loughran | February 23, 2007 at 4:35 am | Permalink

    I have this problem at work; the Jena people share the same building, so its very easy to get sucked into a meeting on RDF if you are not careful.

    By avoiding all meetings/lectures/workshops with the word ‘ontology’, I can usually avoid trouble.

  2. Eric Newcomer | February 23, 2007 at 5:46 pm | Permalink

    What I like are the “do it yourself” ontologies on the community sites.

  3. Anil John | February 25, 2007 at 3:19 pm | Permalink

    LOL! Thank You!

  4. Dong Liu | February 28, 2007 at 12:11 am | Permalink

    “53. So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.”
    from EPIGRAMS IN PROGRAMMING
    http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html

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