[I]t was something that every schoolboy of my generation almost `had' to do, as obligatory a proof of impending manliness as scrumping apples or pulling girls' pigtails.

Real programmers don't write applications programs; they program right down to the bare metal. Applications programming is for wimps who can't do systems programming.

Funking a cobbler – that is, blowing smoke into his stall; smoking cigars at divans and club houses; […]

[…] they know that the low social level of the mass of the race is responsible for much discrimination against it, but they also know, and the nation knows, that relentless color-prejudice is more often a cause than a result of the Negro’s degradation; they seek the abatement of this relic of barbarism, and not its systematic encouragement and pampering by all agencies of social power from the Associated Press to the Church of Christ.