My Life With Spam : How I Caught the Spam and What I Did With It, February 9, 2000, Dominus, Mark Jason, 2006-11-30 http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2000/02/spamfilter.html,
“Which is just a fancy way of saying, "I think about it a lot, day and night."”
Lois McMaster Bujold (1949) Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA
"Publishing, Writing, and Authoring", p. 67
The Vorkosigan Companion (2008)
Context: I attack both from the logic-side, scribbling outline after outline, and the long-walk relaxed-visualization-side, and while neither alone is enough, the combination synergizes. Which is just a fancy way of saying, "I think about it a lot, day and night."
“Course, that doesn't work when 'a' contains parentheses.”
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
[199710211647.JAA17957@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“Good guys is just a fancy way of saying Us. Bad guys is only ever Them.”
Tom Holt book Paint Your Dragon
c. 12
Paint Your Dragon (1996)
“Life doesn't work out the way we plan, but maybe it works out the way it's supposed to after all.”
Kristin Harmel (1979) American journalist
Source: The Sweetness of Forgetting
Theo de Raadt (1968) systems software engineer
Six-monthly releases: OpenBSD shows the way, Varghese, Sam, 2009-12-08, iTWire, 2016-02-16 http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/29872-six-monthly-releases-openbsd-shows-the-way/29872-six-monthly-releases-openbsd-shows-the-way?start=1,
“Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.”
Michael Pollan (1955) American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism
Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“It doesn't work to build half an accelerator. The particles need to go all the way around.”
Steven Weinberg (1933) American theoretical physicist
On The Shoulders of Giants - "The Future of Science" by Steven Weinberg, World Science Festival, YouTube, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GrjjCVk6cA
“You do not finally win a state of freedom that is protected forever. It doesn't work that way.”
Coretta Scott King (1927–2006) American author, activist, and civil rights leader. Wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Source: My Life with Martin Luther King Jr., Revised Edition (1969/1993), p. xiii
Context: !-- We also need to remember that the struggle is a never ending process. --> Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation. That is what we have not taught young people, or older ones for that matter. You do not finally win a state of freedom that is protected forever. It doesn't work that way.
“I say multicultural society doesn't work. We're not living closer, we're living apart.”
Pim Fortuyn (1948–2002) Dutch politician
"Holland's high-camp hero of new politics" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/1393177/Hollands-high-camp-hero-of-new-politics.html, The Telegraph (4 May 2002). <br class="br">Context: If you try to discuss multiculturalism in the UK you're labelled a racist. But here we're still free to talk, and I say multicultural society doesn't work. We're not living closer, we're living apart.
