The Pen Is Indeed Mightier Than The Sword

World wars begun on paper – weapons to use, military technologies and strategies, battlefield plans and layouts, agreements & truces.

A simple act of signing one's name on a piece of paper during the Cold War era could have initiated the launch of intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads all over the world during the Cold War, but thankfully, did not come to pass.

Many important historical legacies were based on paper such as the most revered American Constitution which, defines up to this day, the freedom and rights of modern day American citizens even after hundreds of years had gone since the document was signed.

In a more relative context, schools cannot do without the pen, but they can do without the sword. Every single student in the course of modern history has to continuously write, all without the help of any sword of course.

The daily administrative duties of our government were all done using the pen before the adaptation of computers. But, with the mass adoption of computers, is the pen really done for this time? Most certainly not. Which brings us back to the importance of government agreements with foreign nations, the pen is still, very much needed. Which gives a new saying, “the pen is mightier than the sword and the computer”.

And hence, I can conclude with great pride, that the pen is indeed mightier than the sword in ways we can never fully imagine or understand.

(C) 2006-2014 Daniel Yoleh Foo Chang wei.