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As the adage goes: If you aim for the stars and fail, you'll end up on the moon.
by koliber 2y ago
As the adage goes:
If you aim for the stars and fail, you'll end up on the moon.
- steveBK123 2y agoKind of the opposite lesson of Icarus?
- rsynnott 2y agoOther options are available, for instance ploughing into a village because your second stage didn't light, or, well, this: https://youtu.be/mTmb3Cqb2qw?t=16 https://youtu.be/mTmb3Cqb2qw?t=16 Most of the "you'll never need programmers again!" things have ended up more "cars-showered-with-chunks-of-flaming-HTPB" than "accidentally-land-on-moon", tbh. 4GLs had an anomaly, and now we don't talk about them anymore. (It's a terrible adage, really. "Oops, the obviously impossible thing didn't happen, but an unrelated good thing did" just doesn't happen that often, and when it does there's rarely a causal relation between A and B.)
- cwillu 2y agoIf you aim for the stars and fail, you end up going in circles for all eternity.
- CapeTheory 2y agoIf you aim for the stars and fail, others can remember your folly by the smoking crater you leave behind.
- christophilus 2y agoNot if you fail by running out of fuel and smashing into Europa.
- mrjin 2y agoHmmm, for 3 minutes?