“How did this happen?”
she demanded from the world at large.
“Software,” the hardware consultant opined.
“Hardware,” the software support person snarled.
Source: The Marianne Trilogy, Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods (1988), Chapter 5 (p. 51)
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