William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882) English economist and logician
Source: The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method (1874) Vol. 1, p. 169
“[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby.”
"The State of the Onion", perl.com, 2004-08-18 http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/08/18/onion.html?page=4 <br class="br">In reference to the boxed screensaver that comes with <code>xscreensaver</code>. <br class="br">Other
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