“Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours.”

—  John D. Carmack

Quoted in John Carmack's .plan file http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/finger.pl?id=1&time=20000515035055 (2000-05-15)

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