RE: Nullis in verba

I'm pretty sure that Cary is referring to The Royal Society http://www.roya=
lsoc.ac.uk/ which was formed in 1660 as The Royal Society of London for Imp=
roving Natural Knowledge, which is the sort of title you get if you put a b=
unch of seventeenth century academics into a room together, if you put a bu=
nch of 21st century computer scientists in a room together you get The OakT=
able, it is unclear whether 4 centuries have actually brought that much pro=
gress. It is now just the Royal Society (no mathematics or England or anyth=
ing else in its name) and is the pre-eminent scientifc community in the UK.=
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Prince Charles almost certainly is well aware of latin given his age and ed=
ucational background, not to mention his possession of a Latin motto all of=
 his own. The DBA's latin motto is of course 'nil illegitimi carborundum'.=
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Ok enough OT from me.=20

Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission
+44 117 975 7805=20


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> Sent: 20 February 2004 22:45
> To: mladen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: SQLPlus -- replacement tool
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> On 02/20/2004 05:01:08 PM, Cary Millsap wrote:
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> > "Nullius in verba" means, "Don't take anybody's word for it." It has
> > been the motto of the Royal Society of England for a few centuries.
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> Actually, it is the motto of Royal Mathematical Society if England.
> I very much doubt that the likes of bonnie prince Charley and Fergie,
> the duchess of pork, know Latin.
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