<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=425065" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Firewalls</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Adapt to writing on the wall, <br>respond, react not, and recall<br>that Nature tries to overturn<br>the status quo, so learn to spurn<br>rigidity which all in all loses touch with base.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some species rise to swiftly fall, <br>lose ground to others, Nature's call<br>plays games with all as cycles turn, <br>return to nothingness and burn<br>idols which before Time's squall held pride of place.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet Nature's churning free-for-all<br>recuts Life's cards, acts to forestall<br>stagnation as new species learn<br>to thrive from niche advantage, earn<br>some space to find the wherewithal to old replace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Observe the Himalayan wall<br>trace trilobites in steep Nepal<br>call all to witness, deep discern, <br>the folly mind-sets rigid yearn <br>adjourning evolution, stall 'to save the race'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All systems needing overhaul<br>at any time tend to install<br>firewall tools, or sempiterne<br>defensive mechanisms burn<br>their bridges, fall self-defeating victims to Time's chase.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Omar Khayyam assured 'The ball<br>no questions asks' both great and small, <br>iron clad, fruit fly, must return<br>to dust from dust, as atoms earn<br>a chance to dance again with grace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(28 April 2008)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=425065" data-title="Firewalls de Jonathan Robin" data-description="Adapt to writing on the wall, respond, react not, and recall that Nature tries to overturn the status quo, so learn to spurn rigidity which all in all loses touch with base. Some species rise to swiftly fall, lose ground to others, Nature's cal..."></div> </div> </div>

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