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The world could be perceived in three states. First of all is unquestioned state. That which a child sees, in which bread is bread and wine is wine. The second state is consensus reality, that set of conventions by which we agree that bread is a meal and wine is camaraderie. The third is examined state, that with which our colleagues in the School of Sorcery deal, the interplay of forces which they hold to be the ultimate reality. Yet let us ask ourselves, what lies beyond them all? What is the true state of what we might call hyperreality? The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick

Agada Urbanit (Hebrew: אגדה אורבנית) - English: Urban legend

The quality of an operation system is more a subject of religious debate than of technical merit. The Windows community is like the Catholic Church; it has the largest following, and its members a mostly laymen who do not participate much in religious debates. The community is organized on strong hierarchical lines.

The Unix community is like the mainstream Protestant Church; it has not as large a following as the Windows community, and its members define the system and run the community. Like the Protestant Church, there are many flavors of observance: Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Mach; the list is as long as list of protestant variants. Most are highly evangelical - a good Protestant trait - with Linux perhaps being the most fanatical.

The Macintosh community hangs somewhere in the lurch between Windows and Unix, the Catholic and the Protestants, a bit like the Anglican Church; they're Protestant acting like Catholics.

Plan 9 from Bell Labs is like the Quakers: distinguished by its stress to "Inner Light," noted for simplicity of life, in particular for plainness of speech, like the Quakers, Plan 9 does not proselytize.

— Sape J. Mullender, Pierre G. Janson, Real Time in Real Operating System[1]
  1. ^ Mullender, Sape J.; Janson, Pierre G. (2004-02-26). "Real Time in Real Operating System". In Herbert, Andrew J.; Jones, Karen Spärck (eds.). Computer systems: theory, technology, and applications : a tribute to Roger Needham. Springer Science+Business Media. p. 211. ISBN 978-0-387-20170-2. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)