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Real World, The n.:
1. In programming, those institutions at which programming may
be used in the same sentence as FORTRAN, COBOL, RPG, IBM, etc. 2. To
programmers, the location of non-programmers and activities not related
to programming. 3. A universe in which the standard dress is shirt and
tie and in which a person's working hours are defined as 9 to 5. 4.
The location of the status quo. 5. Anywhere outside a university.
"Poor fellow, he's left MIT and gone into the real world." Used
pejoratively by those not in residence there. In conversation, talking
of someone who has entered the real world is not unlike talking about a
deceased person.
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Reality is a cop-out for people who can't handle drugs.
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Reality is an obstacle to hallucination.
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Reality is bad enough, why should I tell the truth?
-- Patrick Sky
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Reality is for people who lack imagination.
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Reality is for those who can't face Science Fiction.
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Reality is just a convenient measure of complexity.
-- Alvy Ray Smith
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"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go
away".
-- Philip K. Dick
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"Really ?? What a coincidence, I'm shallow too!!"
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Receiving a million dollars tax free will make you feel better than
being flat broke and having a stomach ache.
-- Dolph Sharp, "I'm O.K., You're Not So Hot"
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