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It is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.

In the Beginning...Was the Command Line

Neal Stephenson

Franklin’s first serious experiments involved collecting an electric charge and then studying its properties. He had his friends draw charges from the spinning glass tube and then touch each other to see if sparks flew. The result was the discovery that electricity was “not created by the friction, but collected only.” In other words, a charge could be drawn into person A and out of person B, and the electric fluid would flow back if the two people touched each other.

Benjamin Franklin

Walter Isaacson

But if someone has read the history of engineering disasters, they should quickly recognize this phase of the standard template for disaster. It’s the part where the most informed and most worried parties have to downplay their fears, because the rest of the system hasn’t caught up, and others would give them strange looks.

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares

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