Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: markspace Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: I need a Android Programmer Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 08:59:19 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 16:59:23 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9358cda03e1e0dfd3c4b757daa608707"; logging-data="19797"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+TFMfWeElhF8xSVFvFboPZN1pI7JltlYU=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:ePVtVvjdhkfMRkZiY2936tsRQk8= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:27500 On 2/13/2014 3:26 AM, Stefan Ram wrote: > > In one of his books, Frank Herbert, author of »Dune«, told > how he had once been approached by a friend who claimed he > (the friend) had a killer idea for a SF story, and offered > to tell it to Herbert. In return, Herbert had to agree that > if he used the idea in a story, he'd split the money from > the story with this fellow. Herbert's response was that > ideas were a dime a dozen; he had more story ideas than he > could ever write in a lifetime. The hard part was the > writing, not the ideas. > > (The preceding paragraph is a near quotation from a blog > whose author I [S.R.] cannot identify univocally, might be: > »veridicus«, »Michael Abrash«, »Rei«, or someone else.) > It was Michael Abrash, from Zen of Graphics Programming, iirc.