Source: Man's Search for Meaning
“If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.”
“One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control.”
"Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman", in The Guardian (29 September 2008)
2000s
Context: One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control. It's just as bad as using a proprietary program. Do your own computing on your own computer with your copy of a freedom-respecting program. If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software.
“While loving glory so much how can you persist in a plan which will cause you to lose it?”
En aimant tant la gloire, comment pouvez-vous vous obstiner à un projet qui vous la fera perdre?
Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great (New York: Brentano's, 1927), transl. Richard Aldington, letter 130 from Voltaire to Frederick II of Prussia, October 1757. http://perso.orange.fr/dboudin/VOLTAIRE/39/1757/3426.html
Citas
Variant: Put yourself into life and never lose your openness, your childish enthusiasm throughout the journey that is life, and things will come your way.
“Be sure of the fact before you lose time in searching for a cause.”
James Burgh, in The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
Misattributed
“Be sure of the fact before you lose time in searching for a cause.”
The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
