She stuck out her chest and saluted. “Uniform. Badge. Big gun. A gun is a substitute penis. Did you know that?”
“I didn’t go to college,” Dave said.
The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of by Joseph Hanson, 1978
She stuck out her chest and saluted. “Uniform. Badge. Big gun. A gun is a substitute penis. Did you know that?”
“I didn’t go to college,” Dave said.
The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of by Joseph Hanson, 1978
It is dangerous to place too much hope in any improvement coming from just following new fashions, if we lack insight into what really went wrong before.
More Taste: Less Greed? by C. H. Forsyth
These social spaces run into the same content crunch that games do. And then worse, they run into the problem that a lot of people come in and say, “Well, what do I do? I understand that if you hand me a sword and there’s a spider over there, I can go and hack it. But I don’t understand what I’m supposed to do if I’m just here with other people.”
Changing Realities by Cory Ondrejka at the 22nd Chaos Communications Congress, Berlin, 2005
Two women in sweaters stroll down Kramgasse, arm in arm, laughing with such abandon that they could be thinking no thought of the future.
Einstein’s Dream by Alan Lightman, 1993
I don’t care for dogs. They combine creep and crap to a degree found only otherwise in PR men.
Threatened Species by Reginald Hill in Pascoe’s Ghost, 1979
Mathematical methods will be the key to improved professionalism in software engineering, but they must be rescued from the grip of philosophers who preach sermons about formality.
Mathematical Methods: What We Need and Don’t Need by David Parnas in IEEE Computer, 1996 April