Five Fortunes

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The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
-- Alan Perlis

If all else fails, lower your standards.

"My God! Are we sure he was a liberal?"
"Pretty sure. They pulled him from a Volvo."

We've tried each spinning space mote
And reckoned its true worth:
Take us back again to the homes of men
On the cool, green hills of Earth.

The arching sky is calling
Spacemen back to their trade.
All hands! Standby! Free falling!
And the lights below us fade.
Out ride the sons of Terra,
Far drives the thundering jet,
Up leaps the race of Earthmen,
Out, far, and onward yet--

We pray for one last landing
On the globe that gave us birth;
Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies
And the cool, green hills of Earth.
-- Robert A. Heinlein, 1941

FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed -- it is hardy,
occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
-- A. J. Perlis

Five Fortunes

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