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What Man Has Done, Man Can Aspire To Do. -- Jerry E.
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What man has done, man can aspire to do.
-- Jerry E. Pournelle, about space flight
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That's the thing about people who think they hate computers.
What they really hate is lousy programmers. -- Larry Niven and Jerry E....
What do you give a man who has everything? Penicillin. -- Jerry Leste
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers.
What they really hate is lousy programmers....
Nobody but a lawyer can tell legal from illegal, and the lawyers can't tell right from wrong anymore.
-- Larry Niven and Jerry E. Pournelle "Oath of Fealty" (1981)...
And all may do what has by man been done.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night vi, Line 606...
The idea of man leaving this earth and flying to another celestial body and landing there and stepping out and walking over that body has a fascination and a driving force that can get the country to a level of energy
ambition, and will that I do not see in any other undertaking....
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
-- Samuel Johnson, Boswell's Life, 1770...
I have more information in one place than anybody in the world.
-- Jerry Pournelle, an absurd notion, apparently about the BIX BBS...
1. Work Hard: hard work is the best investment a man can make.
2. Study Hard: Knowledge enables a man to work more intelligently and effectively....