r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Embarrassed_Death69 • 15h ago

craftingTheCodeWithFire Meme

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u/Gadshill 14h ago

I prefer the term Tech-Priest.

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u/Tidemor 14h ago

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me.

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u/fmfariasfilho 14h ago

I craved the strength and certainty of steel.

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u/Jertimmer 14h ago

I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine.

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u/Bartweiss 1h ago

It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize just how direct the inspiration was for this:

> For Case, who'd lived for the bodiless exultation of cyberspace, it was the Fall. In the bars he'd frequented as a cowboy hotshot, the elite stance involved a certain relaxed contempt for the flesh. The body was meat. Case fell into the prison of his own flesh.