On: Why I Hate Frameworks (2005)

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You just keep putting stuff in smaller and smaller Matryoshka dolls and then poof! No more stuff.

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From "Mortal Engines" by Stanisław Lem:

> Pyron invented the wire telegraph, and then he pulled the wire out so fine, it wasn't' there, and in this fashion he obtained the wireless...

(https://english.lem.pl/works/novels/mortal-engines/136-intro...)

I always loved that passage and it would always crack me up from the sheer absurdity of it.

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Aside from obviously great quote, thanks for reminding me of Stanislaw Lem and Pyron. I grew up reading translations of old Russian books and (I know he was Polish) your comment was a good walk on the memory lane