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Re:The Dawn of a new Command Line Interface (2017) by cb321 on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @09:01AM (#26791579)
The general structure of the quip/aphorism/joke/snark pre-dates the industrial revolution dating back (at least!) to Edmund Burke's [1] "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke

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Re:The Dawn of a new Command Line Interface (2017) by mixmastamyk on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @01:11PM (#26795558)
Sounds similar to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Santayana

Looks like Burke lived a century+ earlier.

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Re:The Dawn of a new Command Line Interface (2017) by oblio on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @09:08AM (#26791642)
Yeah, I know, but the difference is that Burke was actually right :-D
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