A revision of "The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers" by

Richard Hamming.
From The Art of Doing Science and Engineering

diff --git a/fortune/datfiles/fortunes b/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
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--- a/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
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@@ -16302,3 +16302,5 @@ Bell has two patents on UNIX
 a) set-user-id bit
 b) on "typo" !
                -- John Lions, Australian UNIX Users Group Newsletter, Oct 1978
+%
+The purpose of computing numbers is not yet in sight