There Was A Blithe Certainty That Came From First Comprehending The Full Einstein Field Equations, Arabesques Of Greek Letters Clinging Tenuously To The Page, A Gossamer Web.

He saw the crowd and thought of the waves moving through them, breaking into white, swallowing foam.
The small figures dimly sensed the eddies of the waves as paradox, as riddle, and heard the tick of time without knowing what they sensed, and clung to their linear illusions of past and future, of progression, of their opening births and yawning deaths to come....
Technique?" said the programmer turning from his terminal, "What I follow is Tao -- beyond all technique!
When I first began to program I would see before me the whole problem in one mass....
A block grant is a solid mass of money surrounded on all sides by governors.
-- Baker's First Law of Federal Geometry...
Baker's First Law of Federal Geometry: A block grant is a solid mass of money surrounded on all sides by governors.
Price Wang's programmer was coding software. His fingers danced upon the keyboard.
The program compiled without an error message, and the program ran like a gentle wind....
In the worlds before monkey, primal chaos reigned. Heaven sought order, but the Phoenix can fly only when its feathers are grown.
The four lands formed again and yet again, as endless eons wheeled and passed....
curtation n. The enforced compression of a string in the fixed-length field environment.
The problem of fitting extremely variable-length strings such as names, addresses, and item descriptions into fixed-length records is no trivial matter....