T-shirt: "Mass Quantities of Code"

I got a kick out of this t-shirt design from Headline Shirts. From the product description:

Long known as a home of innovation, Silicon Valley is now known for something else: spreading the use of mass quantities of code. Code, also known as "zeros 'n ones" or "lines," is fast becoming a full-blown epidemic, even small towns.

Mass Quantities of Code t-shirt

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

More at Boing Boing

Ants and Stars: Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tesanovic visit the Sardinia Radio Telescope in Italy

The Snowden Principle

nickmonkey

I don’t get it. Does anybody get this?
Antinous / Moderator

Yes.
Anonymous

NickMonkey, it is simulating lines of another substance, cocaine, but instead of “powder” it is zeros and ones. The pun is that both cocaine and programming is done in “lines” and if you were addicted to something you might say you do a lot, or a “mass quantity.” A bit highbrow, possibly.
zuzu

Oh, back during the dot-com bubble when morning coffee substituted meth for sugar to start the next day in a marathon of sleepless coding and 100-hour work weeks.

“Good times“.
zuzu

NickMonkey, maybe you’re just accustomed to doing bumps of code rather than whole lines? :p
samuraizenu

Anyone ever done an eight ball of code in one night?
drbuzzkill

Yes, or perhaps NickMonkey is just a tad sheltered. Nothing wrong with that. I often wish I could regain that lost sense of — SNOOOOORT — innocence.
Takuan

is there any video of Beldar programming?
GregLondon

That is awesome.
Johnny Cat

http://tinyurl.com/993n39 perhaps.