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“Moira nodded vigorously. She didn't know what BASIC or COBOL were, except that Wiz said they caused brain damage in those who used them.”
― Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled

“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”
― Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled

“My twelve years’ professional experience in the industry was laughed at in a “yes, but that’s for Apple. It’s not real experience is it?” manner.”
― Richard Moss, The Secret History of Mac Gaming

“Just hours after Apple first showed AppleTalk to the public, a large group of attendees headed to Chinatown and took over the back half of a pizza parlour. They set up two networks – one for each game – with around twenty Macs, played for several hours, then left the store as they’d found it. Years later one attendee, Jack Kobzeff, described it as a ‘hit-and-run, plug and play net game party’. ‘Net parties’ – or LAN parties, as they’re better known today – would become a fixture of both the Mac and PC gaming communities through the late 1980s and 1990s, but this was likely the first.”
― Richard Moss, The Secret History of Mac Gaming