Written language may have evolved more than once in human history. “Judging from what we know about the evolution of art all over the world, there may have been many traditions that were born, lasted for some time and then vanished,” says Jean Clottes, former director of research at the Chauvet caves in southern France. “This may be one of them, most probably not the first and certainly not the last.”

− http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527504.300-oldest-writing-found-on-60000yearold-eggshells.html

yes, it is horrible

or is shuttleworth really wrong?

On the antiquity of “trust”?

The act of breaking into a computer system has to have the same social stigma as breaking into a neighbor’s house. It should not matter that the neighbor’s door is unlocked. The press must learn that misguided use of a computer is no more amazing than drunk driving of an automobile.”

− Ken Thomopson, 1984 − Reflections on Trusting Trust

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