By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune to maintain and is still in danger of collapsing. There are no plans to replace it, since it was never needed in the first place. I expect every installation has its own pet software which is analogous to the above.
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Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?
Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to read more
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
For NASA, space is still a high priority.
For NASA, space is still a high priority.
This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. -Max Frisch.
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. -Max Frisch.
It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It read more
It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
