There is no knowledge that is not power.

[doul]

There is no knowledge that is not power.​

How many of you can guess where (not who) this comes from ?

Answer in spoiler please. Clue : only old web masters knows

 

[hruodr]

powerless people are ignorant.

 

[blackbird9]

"What one fool can do, another can." (Ancient simian proverb) - Silvanus P. Thompson.

Calculus Made Easy

 

[Criosphinx]

I don't know the origin but I know that quote from Mortal Kombat 3 for Super Nintendo.

 

[dclau]

"Knowledge is power", with a twist. Emerson?

 

[doul]

Everything you wrote is right. But it's not the correct answer I'm looking for.

one more clue : it's related to FreeBSD and the web.

 

[blackbird9]

An ancient proverb from the silurian period?

 

[Espionage724]

Sounds like something that'd be on a Diablo 1 shrine and take Str and add Magic

 

[vmisev]

AFAIR, Shaun Amott used as a sig in ML different quote from the same author:

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."

, but IDK who used this one from OP?

 

[doul]

Are you curious? Maybe I could tell you how I came across this...

I like to explore old operating systems, I keep some of them in virtual machines, this time it was OS2 / warp, and I want to surf on the web ... old school obviously. I can't download Netscape, I don't understand why So I try some URLs, without success, then I type http://freebsd.com and I get the message :

There is no knowledge that is not power.​

 

[blackbird9]

My browser has been hard-wired to 'https only' for so long now.... !

 

[blackbird9]

OK, let's read the page RMS-style.

$ wget http://freebsd.com
--2025-10-15 08:03:46-- http://freebsd.com/
Resolving freebsd.com (freebsd.com)... 78.130.130.181
Connecting to freebsd.com (freebsd.com)|78.130.130.181|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 50 [text/html]
Saving to: ‘index.html’

index.html 100%[===================>] 50 --.-KB/s in 0s

2025-10-15 08:03:46 (4.18 MB/s) - ‘index.html’ saved [50/50]

$ grep power index.html
<h1>There is no knowledge that is not power.</h1>



So, an ancient devonian proverb of the space-faring fish-gods isn't so far off!

 

[blackbird9]

I think I've seen that phrase printed on the label of my bulgarian brandy too... or maybe it was on the bottle of yorkshire poteen?