Pink Floyd
Echoes

Overhead the albatross
Hangs motionless upon the air
And deep beneath the rolling waves
In labyrinths of coral caves
The echoes of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand
And everything is green and submarine

And no one showed us to the land
And no one knows the where's or why's.
But something stares and something tries
And starts to climb toward the light.


Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me.
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand
The best I can.

And no one called us to the land
And no one forces down our eyes.
No one speaks and no one tries
No one flies around the sun....


Cloudless everyday you fall
Upon my waking eyes,
Inviting and inciting me
To rise.
And through the window in the wall
Come streaming in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of morning.

And no one sings me lullabies
And no one makes me close my eyes
So I throw the windows wide
And call to you across the sky....

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The Twelve Fundamental Truths


1. It Has To Work.

2. No matter how hard you push and no matter what the priority,
you can't increase the speed of light.

2.1 (corollary). No matter how hard you try, you can't make a
baby in much less than 9 months. Trying to speed this up
*might* make it slower, but it won't make it happen any
quicker.

3. With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is
not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they
are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them
as they fly overhead.

4. Some things in life can never be fully appreciated nor
understood unless experienced firsthand.

5. It is always possible to aglutenate multiple separate problems
into a single complex interdependent solution. In most cases
this is a bad idea.

6. It is easier to move a problem around than it is to solve it.

6.1 (corollary). It is always possible to add another level of
indirection.

7. It is always something.

7.1 (corollary). Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two, you can't
have all three.

8. It is more complicated than you think.

9. For all resources, whatever it is, you need more.

9.1 (corollary). Every problem always takes longer to
solve than it seems like it should.

10. One size never fits all.

11. Every old idea will be proposed again with a different name and
a different presentation, regardless of whether it works.

12. In the past perfection had been reached when there
was nothing left to add. Nowadays perfection has been
reached when there is nothing left to take away.

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And death will come on wings of song,
A song of long and winding guile,
And in the end your end I wend,
And in the end, a harp will smile.


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