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Re:Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead by cpeterso on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @02:10PM (#23631665)
What does "Alexander" refer to here?
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Re:Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead by robotresearcher on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @03:23PM (#23632659)
'And Alexander wept, seeing as he had no more worlds to conquer.'

Attributed to Alexander the Great.

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/03/19/and-alexander...

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Re:Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead by cercatrova on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @10:08PM (#23636133)
"It is reported that King Alexander the Great, hearing Anaxarchus the philosopher discoursing and maintaining this position: That there were worlds innumerable: fell a-weeping: and when his friends and familiars about him asked what he ailed. Have I not (quoth he) good cause to weep, that being as there are an infinite number of worlds, I am not yet the lord of one?"
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Re:Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead by cercatrova on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @10:09PM (#23636140)
Alex's Alexander the Great, who was great at conquering but not at administrating.
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Re:Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead by necheffa on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @02:26PM (#23631893)
Probably Alexander the Great.
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