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ISO applications:
        A solution in search of a problem!
 
Freebsd Fortunes 4:  1592 of 2327

Issawi's Laws of Progress:
        The Course of Progress:
                Most things get steadily worse.
        The Path of Progress:
                A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.
 
Freebsd Fortunes 4:  1593 of 2327

It appears that PL/I (and its dialects) is, or will be, the
most widely used higher level language for systems programming.
                -- J. Sammet
 
Freebsd Fortunes 4:  1594 of 2327

It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
It lies behind starts and under hills,
And empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.
 
Freebsd Fortunes 4:  1595 of 2327

"It could be that Walter's horse has wings" does not imply that there is
any such animal as Walter's horse, only that there could be; but "Walter's
horse is a thing which could have wings" does imply Walter's horse's
existence.  But the conjunction "Walter's horse exists, and it could be
that Walter's horse has wings" still does not imply "Walter's horse is a
thing that could have wings", for perhaps it can only be that Walter's
horse has wings by Walter having a different horse.  Nor does "Walter's
horse is a thing which could have wings" conversely imply "It could be that
Walter's horse has wings"; for it might be that Walter's horse could only
have wings by not being Walter's horse.

I would deny, though, that the formula [Necessarily if some x has property P
then some x has property P] expresses a logical law, since P(x) could stand
for, let us say "x is a better logician than I am", and the statement "It is
necessary that if someone is a better logician than I am then someone is a
better logician than I am" is false because there need not have been any me.
                -- A.N. Prior, "Time and Modality"
 
Freebsd Fortunes 4:  1596 of 2327

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
                -- Benjamin Disraeli
 
Freebsd Fortunes 4:  1597 of 2327

It did not occur to me that my being with two men continuously would
interest anyone or arouse anyone's misgivings. I asked for an invitation
for Heinrich too, as often as it seemed possible, when Paulus and I were
invited to a social gathering. I felt the set of rules others lived by
was irrelevant. My childhood attitude -- every attempt to adjust is
hopeless and you might just as well follow your own attitudes -- must have
carried me.
                -- Hannah Tillich, "From Time to Time"
 
Freebsd Fortunes 4:  1598 of 2327

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations.
 
Freebsd Fortunes 4:  1599 of 2327

It does not matter if you fall down as long as you
pick up something from the floor while you get up.
 
Freebsd Fortunes 4:  1600 of 2327

It doesn't matter what you do, it only matters what you say you've
done and what you're going to do.
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