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This Was The Ultimate Form Of Ostentation Among Technology Freaks- To Have A System So Complete And Sophisticated That Nothing Showed
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This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks- to have
a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines,
no wires, no controls.
-- Michael Swanwick, Vacuum Flowers
Related:
I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together.
-- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. xii...
Nothing is ultimate.
Torture: The Ultimate Art Form.
mainframe: n. Term originally referring to the cabinet containing the central processor unit or `main frame' of a room-filling {Stone Age} batch machine.
After the emergence of smaller `minicomputer' designs in the early 1970s, the traditional {big iron} machines were described as `mainframe computers' and eventually just as mainframes....
virus n. [from the obvious analogy with biological viruse
via SF] A cracker program that searches out other programs and `infects' them by embedding a copy of itself in them, so that they become Trojan horses....
Throwing Windows Out The Window The Federal Bureau Of Missing Socks has banned the use of Microsoft Windows and Office on all employee computers.
But don't get too excited; they aren't going to replace them with Linux....
Bees are very busy souls, They have no time for birth controls, And that is why in times like these, There are so many Sons of Bees.