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“Forced Perspective by Stewart Stafford She unscrewed my eyeballs with daggers, as she had with her father before, no doubt. Fractured the irises so I saw things her way, jamming them back in so they wouldn’t pop out. It took time before focus felt no longer strange, as she asked if we were now lockstep viewers. I told her I’d let her know the moment I did — and suggested she take a walk in the sewers. She took umbrage at that, giving me black eyes, reverting at last to an optical divorce. She tapped out — project fail — and we drifted apart, mutually, of course. © 2026, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”

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Author:Stewart Stafford

“We reverse engineer genius ideas, by creating our own chain of linked thoughts, starting with an idea and working our way back to what we imagine the original problem might have been.”

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Book:CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

Source: CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

“Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.”

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Author:Jon Lech Johansen

“Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.”

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Author:Jon Lech Johansen

“I still haven't heard anything from Apple about my hacks. There is a tool based on my work reverse-engineering Apple's FairPlay called jhymn that's been hosted on a U.S. server for over a year and nothing has happened.”

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Author:Jon Lech Johansen

“Copying is about reverse-engineering.”

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Book:Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.”

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Author:Francis Crick

“Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.”

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Book:The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

Source: The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century