What man has done, man can aspire to do.
-- Jerry E. Pournelle, about space flight
-- Jerry E. Pournelle, about space flight
Related:
- That's the thing about people who think they hate computers.
What they really hate is lousy programmers. -- Larry... - What do you give a man who has everything? Penicillin.
Jerry... - That's the thing about people who think they hate computers.
What they really hate is lousy programmers. -- Larry... - 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"... - And all may do what has by man been done.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765)
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Night Thoughts, Night vi, Line... - 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... - I have more information in one place than anybody in the world.
Jerry Pournelle, an absurd notion, apparently about... - 1. Work Hard: hard work is the best investment a man can make.
2. Study Hard: Knowledge enables a man to work more...
