Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter Ten, Emergent International Economic Order, p. 393
“A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box.”
Dijkstra (1970) " Notes On Structured Programming http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd02xx/EWD249.PDF" (EWD249), Section 3 ("On The Reliability of Mechanisms"), p. 5.
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“Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff?”
Source: The Chocolate War (1974), p. 245

“Wack job in the back with a black stocking cap/Jacking off to a hockey mask in a boxing match”
"Underground".
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Aaron Henry to Eastland relative to his chances of reelection. 1978
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Source: Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology (1984), p. 20 as cited in: Yll Haxhimusa (2006) The Structurally Optimal Dual Graph Pyramid and Its Application in Image Partitioning. p. 149
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Higher Mathematics for Chemical Students (1911)