The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don’t have a space program, it’ll serve us right!
Tag: quotes
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily li…
The pace of modern world
xkcd has a brilliant collection of quotes from the days long gone. All of those complain about how the world has become too fast and how we don’t care about the important things anymore. The best part about these collection however is that all of these quotes are from the end of 19th and beginning of 20th century. Once you drop ignore a few minor technical references like telegraph, it’s almost exactly like the complaints we hear today. The world is too fast and we don’t care anymore…
I can’t stand that this is what America is; that w…
I can’t stand that this is what America is; that we trade our children’s lives for the opportunity to purchase items specifically invented for killing. I can’t stand it. It’s pathetic and embarrassing and barbaric.
I’m not inclined to make grand pronouncements abou…
I’m not inclined to make grand pronouncements about the future of software, but if anything kills off commercial software, let me tell you, it won’t be open source software. They needn’t bother. Commercial software will gleefully strangle itself to death on its own licensing terms.