Reverse Engineering Quotes

“We reverse engineer genius ideas, by creating our own chain of linked thoughts, starting with an idea and working our way back to what we imagine the original problem might have been.”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

“Forced Perspective by Stewart Stafford

She unscrewed my eyeballs with daggers,
as she had with her father before, no doubt.
Fractured the irises so I saw things her way,
jamming them back in so they wouldn’t pop out.

It took time before focus felt no longer strange,
as she asked if we were now lockstep viewers.
I told her I’d let her know the moment I did —
and suggested she take a walk in the sewers.

She took umbrage at that, giving me black eyes,
reverting at last to an optical divorce.
She tapped out — project fail —
and we drifted apart, mutually, of course.

© 2026, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford