"You can't be on the net and _not_ be on the net," Chia
said, as they shot up a final flight of stairs.
"Distributed processing," he said.  "Interstitial.  It 
began with a shared killfile--"
        -- William Gibson, _Idoru_, 1996. p. 209
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First, we want to establish the idea that a computer
language is not just a way of getting a computer
to perform operations but rather that it is a
novel formal medium for expressing ideas about
methodology. Thus, programs must be written for
people to read, and only incidentally for machines
to execute.

        -- Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman 
           with Julie Sussman,
           Structure and Interpretation of Computer 
           Programs