One of the things that always gives us a good laugh over here is when people pull out the “real world” card.
As in “you don’t understand the real world” or “your products would never work in the real world” or “you’ve obviously never worked in the real world.”
It’s thrown around so often that it must mean something obvious. So, in 10 words or less, what does “real world” mean to you?
Jason Fried wrote this on Apr 10 2007 There are 241 comments.
Tony Yayo 10 Apr 07
This is a story of 5 strangers, picked to live…
damn, out of words.
Martijn Engler 10 Apr 07
Everything around me.
And that’s my real world, no matter what people tell me.
joe 10 Apr 07
A place where people who can’t “get real” rule.
Matt 10 Apr 07
When people stop being polite, and start getting real.
HA! 9 words.
Adam Lindsay 10 Apr 07
A place where people reject change, no matter how beneficial.
A perfect 10. :)
Jim 10 Apr 07
When people talk about the “real world”, it’s usually because they consider the other person to be saying something that’s nice in theory, but lousy in practice. For example, saying that it doesn’t matter if an application breaks when you go offline and you can just take time out to relax instead. Nice in theory, but in the real world, it means you have to stop working and your clients phone you up to shout at you for not getting things done.
Booga 10 Apr 07
The color of my sons eyes will never be 2.0.
Justin Rich 10 Apr 07
The universe where what you just said is wrong.
RC 10 Apr 07
The real world is: Bullshit politics.
P Smith 10 Apr 07
“What actually happens versus what is planned to happen.”
Keith 10 Apr 07
In the context of this post and issue?
“The place where a thing is no longer a theory.”
Adam Spooner 10 Apr 07
Life
Jeff Croft 10 Apr 07
I sometimes use “the real world” to mean the physical world—that which is not made up of bits and pixels. But, it’s probably not the best use of the expression, as it does also have this other connotation wherein “the real world” refers to the reality of deadlines, limited resources, stubborn managers, fear of change, and the like.
Like most overused expressions in our language, you can’t really define what it means in 10 words or less. You usually do, though, understand what the person saying it means when it is said.
In language, as in design: context is everything.
Joe Fritz 10 Apr 07
The real world:
“Where theory ends”
Although you shrug it off, there’s still possibly good feedback underlying that comment.
Can you guys do a blog post about the user testing you go through with your apps? I’d like to see what that process is like!
Chris Lindgren 10 Apr 07
A equals A
John S. 10 Apr 07
Jim said it best but broke the rules…so here goes…
“Where practical, diverse and likely fluid requirements supercede localized theory.”
10 :-)
Jeff Croft 10 Apr 07
And, just to embarras the hell out of myself, let’s see i I can do this from memory…
“This is the true story of seven strangers, picked to live in a house and have their lives taped, to find out what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real.”
Yeah, I still watch that show. Damn, that’s embarrasing.
Matthew King 10 Apr 07
The world where people send 80 MB email attachments.
Darren 10 Apr 07
Hindsight is for blind visionaries.
brad 10 Apr 07
Hell’s Kitchen
(Well, at least that’s what my stepmother always told me when I was growing up: “You don’t know what the real world is until you’ve lived in Hell’s Kitchen.” Who am I to argue with that?)
CJ Curtis 10 Apr 07
The “real” world…
“More complex and difficult than our general perceptions of it.”
Tom von Schwerdtner 10 Apr 07
The place where familiarity wins out over ingenuity.
Spiros Antonopoulos 10 Apr 07
Breath, intent, perseverance, then death.
Eric Prugh 10 Apr 07
Life outside the vacuum of idealism.
CJF 10 Apr 07
Right next door to Theory where instead, nothing works.
Anton Macon 10 Apr 07
Messy. Rainy. Sunny. Crazy. Organized. Bloody. Fast. Hot. Cold. Stressed.
Scott 10 Apr 07
where the sh!t hits the fan
Josh Williams 10 Apr 07
Somewhere on a beach on the north shore of Oahu.
That, and Bullshit Politics too.
Sean 10 Apr 07
“you don’t understand MY world” or “your products would never work in MY world” or “you’ve obviously never worked in MY world”
heri 10 Apr 07
angry and mean people who don’t care about theory
Nathan Clark 10 Apr 07
I think we all need an acronym here: Reality – Every Autumn Leaves Inch Tto-the-ground. Yo! Or perhaps just: Reality is what we can well define with acronyms or bullet-point lists. Word.
Logan Koester 10 Apr 07
Exactly when and where does this “real world” occur? – Almost Famous
(I’m not convinced it does)
Terry Sutton 10 Apr 07
The real world is where I work. In this world people:
- triple click everything - use MS Word as their file browser and constantly ask, “Why won’t this image open?” - think a virus is going to physically eat their computer - still buy Palm Pilots and call them Palm Pilots - insist on wild clicking when their hotmail account loads slowly - ask, “What’s GMail” - say, “The word google isn’t a verb” and number one: - STILL send WordPerfect documents
Sorry, there’s no way 10 words was going to cover it. I read this blog, I follow and use your products, I think what you do is great, but in most of the ‘real worlds’ that I know, it would take eons to teach someone to use Basecamp.
Chris D. 10 Apr 07
”...what does “real world” mean to you?”
The bitchslap I got when asking my wife that question.
Micheal 10 Apr 07
Ten words if you don’t count the contraction of “it is”. It’s also a slight reference to “getting real”.
Jan 10 Apr 07
Where Anna is.
John 10 Apr 07
The airplane where you can’t use basecamp.
DanD 10 Apr 07
Someone is paying for it and wants their say.
one word under!
Thijs van der Vossen 10 Apr 07
Internet Explorer 6
Joe Grossberg 10 Apr 07
“There’s no such thing as a free lunch.”
Curt Micol 10 Apr 07
An often used excuse for those unwilling to take risks.
Dennis Eusebio 10 Apr 07
“I’m so deep, three is four” - beau sia
mandy 10 Apr 07
Actually, it usually works the other way around. The more often a word or phrase is used, the less likely it has a clear or commonly agreed upon definition. Look at words like “evil” or “terror” as they get increasingly thrown around today, for an example.
Erik 10 Apr 07
Can’t remember who I’m stealing this from, but my favorite definition of the real world is…
Whatever doesn’t go away when you stop believing in it.
Tom Webster 10 Apr 07
The gigantic middle section of the bell curve.
Sammy 10 Apr 07
What you see when you choose the red pill.
Then you tell them, “And since you don’t look like Carrie Anne Moss or sound like Laurence Fishburne, you don’t get to lecture me on what constitutes reality.”
Andyduncan 10 Apr 07
I’ll do it in two: “My world”
What the person is usually saying is “in my past experience something like that wouldn’t have worked for one or a bunch of reasons I’m not able to articulate right now.”
Doesn’t mean it won’t work now, or wouldn’t work for someone else. But it’s also not entirely bullshit.
Benjy 10 Apr 07
Appealing to the lowest common denominator…
Arik 10 Apr 07
“Shut up.”
Thats the ticket to the real world. Talk less, do more.
Patrick 10 Apr 07
“People create too much crap to work with one system.”
some guy 10 Apr 07
Conforming to the status quo out of fear and laziness.
some guy 10 Apr 07
Conforming to the status quo out of fear and laziness.
Kurt 10 Apr 07
a place not definable in ten words definitions
Some Dude 10 Apr 07
“Emotions of the user plus context of the task”
Derek DeMarco 10 Apr 07
yeah what they said times 10!
Colin 10 Apr 07
“dirty”
Bjørn Bulthuis 10 Apr 07
The real world to me is a series of tubes.
beto 10 Apr 07
3 words: Bills to pay :S
! 10 Apr 07
Rapidly Changing Requirements
German 10 Apr 07
A place where the consequences of your actions are unpredictable
Luke 10 Apr 07
The ‘real world’ is: Arguments for the existence of something beyond my experienced reality.
mgroves 10 Apr 07
“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.”
Hmm, not quite 10 words. Let’s try this:
Theoretically, there’s no difference between theory and practice. Practically, there’s.
Doesn’t sound quite as clever that way.
Luis 10 Apr 07
Reality is the pause in the ocean’s waves.
Jason Berberich 10 Apr 07
Unpredictable. Unintended consequences.
Jon 10 Apr 07
“A set of problems looking for solutions”
Scott C. Hughes 10 Apr 07
Entry Words: Real World Function: FUD Text: 1: An environment bound by a person or groups limitations.
Scott C. Hughes 10 Apr 07
Entry Words: Real World:
Function: FUD
Text: 1: An environment bound by a person or groups limitations.
a different john 10 Apr 07
real is the perception of the world around you.
or
life outside of the internet theories and blog posts.
Dean Jackson 10 Apr 07
It only takes three words to define “in the real world”.
“In normal usage.”
Jason L. 10 Apr 07
Mostly harmless.
Scott 10 Apr 07
Real world if where you better nightmares Get Real.
Mr. Winky 10 Apr 07
Where it is actually only 5 inches, not 8.
Broom 10 Apr 07
Useable, useful and desirable by your average, lazy, couch potato.
the secret 10 Apr 07
The real world is a good place to live and apply “the secret.”
alan 10 Apr 07
Where immediate maximized benefit trumps any other concern.
Sandy 10 Apr 07
The world as I see it.
Joshua Poulson 10 Apr 07
Our common objective existence.
Bryce 10 Apr 07
A place where logic often loses out to greed.
Adrian Madrid 10 Apr 07
Paraphrasing John Lennon, the real world is “what happens while you are making other plans”.
Morgan Schweers 10 Apr 07
Greetings,
Fun becomes boredom, Boring things are necessary. Theory fails. Sadness.
— Morgan
MP 10 Apr 07
A world that frequently eludes faithful representation by use cases.
Steve M 10 Apr 07
“Real World is… working from a real problem to solution.”
(Most issues flagged as not “real world” are solutions to problems that are not very good dispictions of real problems.)
“Real World is… selling an answer to uninformed executive decision-makers.”
(Most issues never get solved because decision-makers are unwilling to consider the risk of not finding answers to the real questions.)
“Real World is… understanding the problem and cheapening the solution.”
(Most issues never get answers, only temporary bandages that are mended forever.)
“Real World is… reducing concern to the shortest attention span.”
(Most issues never get considered seriously if they cannot get boiled down effectively into a one quarter page executive summary.)
“Real World is… solving a problem yesterday without a budget.”
(Most issues don’t get solved in reality because people would rather kick-off a project that addresses an issue rather than actually appropriately address an issue.)
“Real World is… debunking a smoke and mirrors vendor demo.”
Elaine 10 Apr 07
where computers cause anxiety and legal has the last word.
gwg 10 Apr 07
An actual product with actual users.
Ben 10 Apr 07
The ‘real world’ is … 1 – “Practical concerns of environmental immediacy” 2 – “Too close to put words between you and it”
I prefer #2 but I think most people are talking about #1
MP 10 Apr 07
Almost a 5-7-5 haiku Morgan, I like!
Peter Cooper 10 Apr 07
A place full of non-savvy idiots who don’t care.
Mark Gallagher 10 Apr 07
Perceived constraints (sometimes real) in the work environment.
Go Cubs. (2 words left ;-)
Ralf 10 Apr 07
That’s easy: http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html
Welcome to the real world :-)
Seth Aldridge 10 Apr 07
My mother can understand how to use it with little to no experience.
Nathan 10 Apr 07
“I’m afraid you will succeed where I wish I could.”
MP 10 Apr 07
Matt Mutz 10 Apr 07
It depends…
Gil Freund 10 Apr 07
The paycheck figure on WEB 2 .0 companies cleaning service workers
Morgan Schweers 10 Apr 07
Greetings,
Thanks MP! I tried, but it was off the cuff and I guessed at it.
10 words + haiku == embracing constraints, right? :)
— Morgan
John Topley 10 Apr 07
Where just good enough is just good enough.
Jack Shedd 10 Apr 07
The Real World: A place where most of the time, you don’t get your way.
Or such is how my mother described it to me.
Nate Cavanaugh 10 Apr 07
Practical application.
Matt Grommes 10 Apr 07
In production, with users using it.
Pretty simple to me. If you don’t have people using the thing, it isn’t real. But beyond that, there’s really no honest explanation of why people say that other than as a put-down since they’re implying they are in the real (hard) world and you aren’t.
As Bruce Schneier puts it:
In theory; theory and reality are the same. In reality; they’re not.
Barrett Bowen 10 Apr 07
Contrast: You pay yourself to sit home and play. Dreamy!
Lame-O Middle Manager 10 Apr 07
Because I said so that’s why.
Jamie Stephens 10 Apr 07
“The life of man: solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
Thomas Hobbes The Leviathan
OverlyPessimistic 10 Apr 07
The real worls is where murphy’s law proves itself correct
Geoffrey Sneddon 10 Apr 07
When something can actually be used.
MP 10 Apr 07
That which is not modeled properly by thirty seven signals.
/jk
;)
Kevin M. Keating 10 Apr 07
Blogging. No, really. It’s just as real as any real.
David Smit 10 Apr 07
THIS , here, NOW , sitting, eating, BREATING , Enjoying, LOVING , working, doing IT
Keith 10 Apr 07
Get it done, get it done, get it done, yesterday!
wess stewart 10 Apr 07
The real world is just a figment of your imagination.
Eamon 10 Apr 07
Nobody discusses “the real world” in the real world. Nobody.
Miles 10 Apr 07
Real World is:
- “Where committees decide what the right choice is”
- “Where fear of looking stupid trumps trying to improve”
- “Where the road to hell is paved with good intentions”
TAD 10 Apr 07
The real world is objective reality as opposed to emotional, subjective “reality.”
NKP 10 Apr 07
zion
MP 10 Apr 07
Hey Miles—not all of us work for the government.
;)
Prophetess 10 Apr 07
What is “the real world”?
My world. My limits. My fears. My complexity and complications.
Too complex for 10 words, or 10 worlds. :)
Álvaro 10 Apr 07
“Don’t tell me your story, give me the meat”
My boss once told me... 10 Apr 07
It’s not your fault, it’s just your problem.
Reuben 10 Apr 07
Forget about what you want, embrace what you have.
James Thompson 10 Apr 07
Where inflexible people and processes prove your best theories wrong.
Corey 10 Apr 07
Mom and Dad the Buick, arguing about rotten tomatoes.
Corey 10 Apr 07
Mom and Dad in the Buick, arguing about rotten tomatoes.
(woops, forgot the word “in” in the previous comment)
Alex King 10 Apr 07
The real world: Everyone, everywhere, at all times.
Don’t design for that.
ron connor 10 Apr 07
the ‘real world’ is;
1 historical 2 events 3 shaping 4 the 5 expectations 6 of 7 an 8 imagination-9 less 10 person.
or “illusion the future will be the same as the past. ”which is all WRONG . great post.
mig 10 Apr 07
“nobody actually cares about your products and ideas, only themselves.”
I think this qualifies as real world in 10 words.
pj 10 Apr 07
In the real world, you aren’t limited to 10 words.
carl LaFlamme 10 Apr 07
the real world in one word:
“NOW”.
Addi 10 Apr 07
I’ll have a go at it.
The real world is where exceptions are not handled gracefully.
tunaranch 10 Apr 07
Somebody ask these guys. (See image in top right corner)
Steve R. 10 Apr 07
Understand what, how or why. Choose one.
Des Traynor 10 Apr 07
Here is mine, I think it’s quite fitting give the various bullshit circumstances it’s been used in on certain blogs today….
” The very last resort for someone out of good arguments.”
sixtoe 10 Apr 07
This isn’t universal truth. It only works in your case.
Des Traynor 10 Apr 07
Or possibly…
The business speak equivalent of But Will It Scale?
John 10 Apr 07
The real world is where you are after you “get real”.
Sergio 10 Apr 07
The real world… – take 1: The parts that are missing from your pretty model – take 2: The floor underneath your ivory tower – take 3: Expression that automatically demerits the speaker – take 4: Frustration between your idea and the pot of gold – take 5: Place were mediocre people like myself voice their opinion
Ahmad Alhashemi 10 Apr 07
In the context of this post: My hypothesis as opposed to your hypothesis.
This reminds me of the quote used by Adam from Mythbusters: I reject your reality and substitute my own.
Sam Ryan 10 Apr 07
The real world is predictable if you get lucky enough.
Brett N 10 Apr 07
What is, versus what could, should, ought, might be.
Chuck Robinson 10 Apr 07
The real world should be fun, fast, cheap, and easy.
Hmm, actually that sounds like a hooker.
greg h. 10 Apr 07
TAXES , I payed through the nose last year!
Benson 10 Apr 07
‘Real world’ is such a narrow perspective.
Within context, within environment, and through past experience may construct his/her “real world”.
I believe in Einstein’s three words.
Everything is relative.
RobertG 10 Apr 07
the eventual home of every good and/or bad idea.
(generally used as a negative by those who either fear said world, have never truly enjoyed it, or are no fun to begin with.)
Richard Crowley 10 Apr 07
Entropy.
garym 10 Apr 07
That which is consistently beyond conception
Mark 10 Apr 07
Whatever can come to be, caused in order to be
Ryan Allen 10 Apr 07
Whatever I think because I’m so much better than you!
That’s the real world baby!!! :D
Ryan Allen 10 Apr 07
Oh, and what Des Traynor said. Often used as a last resort in an argument, aka ‘Making it Personal’ fallacy.
Drew 10 Apr 07
This is a silly question. Cheap post. We all know what the concept of “real world” means and defining it in 10 words or less is trivial. Please don’t waste our time.
Jeff 11 Apr 07
“I haven’t got the charisma to convince others to do this.”
brett 11 Apr 07
The Real World™ is where “anything that can go wrong, will”
Or is that Murphy’s Law?
Whateve.
Anonymous Coward 11 Apr 07
The real world is undefined.
LisaE 11 Apr 07
Right here, right now.
Dhrumil 11 Apr 07
excuses
Daniel 11 Apr 07
With reagard to this usage of the term, my definition would be:
“The real world is the sum of someone’s preconceived notions”
10 words
It is also a dumb reality-tv show, and the place Keanu goes when he’s unplugged from the Matrix.
john manoogian III 11 Apr 07
messy. broken. beautiful. seven words is enough.
Tom H. 11 Apr 07
Where college professors work before they go into education.
Gary R Boodhoo 11 Apr 07
where apathy & pessimism masquerade as the status quo
Moses Ting 11 Apr 07
The real world is my playground.
Copongcopong 11 Apr 07
real world: “promises are broken, compromise happens.”
vslog 11 Apr 07
One where five billion people live instead of just one
Murlin 11 Apr 07
Everything
plffft! 11 Apr 07
everything on this planet minus you
jurgen 11 Apr 07
Perspective, Context, Perception.
Vike Shutov 11 Apr 07
in real world nobody wants to think even a bit
in context of both sides of interface )
Alex 11 Apr 07
The world beyond your imagination.
s 11 Apr 07
“is a negligible bubble in the ocean of Universe”
Anonymous Coward 11 Apr 07
To keep on the business topic the real world is “where people pay real money for what you offer”.
Rick Munoz 11 Apr 07
Where people don’t have G5 Macs with 24-inch monitors.
maadmardigan 11 Apr 07
the scales may be tipped now, but balance awaits patiently
josh 11 Apr 07
where people who envy your life live, and are miserable.
Diego 11 Apr 07
Let
Love
Rule
Diego 11 Apr 07
Sorry for double posting, but it would’ve been more interesting if it had been: apply 10 tags or less to real world.
love, hate, human, earth, universe, life, death, dream, time
Ayka Yao 11 Apr 07
Here now, nowhere tomorrow…
And/or
“Real” for none, some “real” for some, “real” for only one
Milton 11 Apr 07
Where people see “wow” and think “great” instead of “nerds”.
Henrik Lied 11 Apr 07
Welcome to the Social™.
mark rushworth 11 Apr 07
Motivated by Pain and Pleasure with Pain being the biggest motivator.
Mike Pearson 11 Apr 07
Data collected by my senses distorted by my prejudices.
Taylor Hughes 11 Apr 07
176 comments about the “real world” and nobody has said the word “cubicle?” What about watercooler? Casual Friday? Synergize?
BenSky 11 Apr 07
“real world” – Paying bills, bad things happening to good people and having to work!
Jonathan 11 Apr 07
Don’t be silly, Toto. Scarecrows don’t talk.
Andrew Skegg 11 Apr 07
“The real world is way more complicated than that!”
Naoise 11 Apr 07
The offline world. Tee hee, 7 words left, oh wait….
James 11 Apr 07
Real world? What? You mean meatspace?
Steven 11 Apr 07
Life is like running with the Red Queen (Through the Looking Glass). Constantly running just to stay where you are. You have to run even harder to get ahead.
dracolytch 11 Apr 07
The “real world” is the expectation that I should express myself in ten words or less.
cameron 11 Apr 07
The place where an expert is not always technically savvy.
Seshu 11 Apr 07
There is no one real world ! :-(
John 11 Apr 07
Real World (reel-wurld)
n. Actual people in actual situations, interacting with actual systems.
Sascha 11 Apr 07
The place that always differs from your imagination.
Clark Valberg 11 Apr 07
I’ve found that the “real world” is typically synonymous with “my own personal world of insecurity and fear”.
As in "how dare you attempt to take up the reins of your own destiny, I never did - and it kind of pisses me off that you are".A good friend and I have coined a term we feel fits this attitude perfectly: “Begrudgal”
Juan 11 Apr 07
The curious is what every different person has his own percepcion of real world. So real world means diversity.
Pingu 11 Apr 07
“What I imagine is real, what you imagine is unreal” :)
Jamie Notter 11 Apr 07
Where people agree with me but not with you.
Jeremy 11 Apr 07
“Taxes are due and I’m reading a blog. Oh shit.”
(there… ten words. I’d say 3 of them are deductible. oh hell let’s say 5.)
MilesZS 11 Apr 07
debt, bills, career struggles, but also love, beauty, and passion.
Omar 11 Apr 07
Paraphrased from John Lennon:
It’s what’s actually happening while we’re busy making other plans.
Rob 11 Apr 07
Ironically more people are “real” and direct in Second Life.
:)
Ulf 11 Apr 07
the world described through existing data without considering disruptive change.
Hmm. Ten words, indeed. But so much more to say on that issue. For now I’m just gonna leave it at being glad that there are plenty of people who are willing to go further than this constructed cage called the “real world”
Greg 11 Apr 07
A boot stomping on a human face, forever.
Rami Kayyali 11 Apr 07
When people say “you haven’t worked in the real world”, they seem to mean “you haven’t been in a mind-numbing, senseless, endless job”.
Rami Kayyali 11 Apr 07
When people say “you haven’t worked in the real world”, they seem to mean “you haven’t been in a mind-numbing, senseless, endless job”.
Aitor Garcia 11 Apr 07
real word : “This prosaic and suffocant ambient around us.”
Allister Banks 11 Apr 07
getting the job done, rationalizing happiness through toil for sustainance
kindof on topic: http://xkcd.com/c137.html
nice call for submissions, Internet Explorer 6! Ha!
Jim 11 Apr 07
Lacking sufficient time for brevity, the real world is changing.
Ripley 11 Apr 07
The real world is what you make of it.
Ritz 11 Apr 07
A completely ridiculous joke… Seriously… Punch anyone who says that!
victor 11 Apr 07
the real world is… “the other 70%”
z 11 Apr 07
90% of everything is crap. thats the law. real life is dealing with that crap. and enjoying the 10%. if you’re lucky.
Dan 11 Apr 07
Real World: “The perspective to which another tenaciously and ignorantly holds.”
David 11 Apr 07
The Real World: Bludgeon used on ideas when you’re missing the point.
Six 11 Apr 07
Pareto called, you are part of the 80 percent
Ryan Norbauer 11 Apr 07
Where everyone realizes they’re just primates trying to have fun.
It’s not the same pejorative thrown around by the Important People, but if there really is a definition of the “real world,” I prefer this one.
Jeff Giddens 11 Apr 07
Its what everyone thinks they own, but have no idea.
Juan Maiz 11 Apr 07
Invoke the ‘real world’ is like…
“Whenever people say ‘We mustn’t be sentimental,’ you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add ‘We must be realistic,’ they mean they are going to make money out of it.”
Brigid Brophy
dusoft 12 Apr 07
The place around you. Everything around you.
Charlie Triplett 12 Apr 07
Reality conforms to the truth, not the other way around.
Thusly, the real world is:
The truth in action.
Brian 12 Apr 07
I think real world depends on your perspective and your goals. Some will argue that it’s not real world to have a small development team with short design and development cycles, others will argue it’s not real world to have the bloat of a typical enterprise IT department.
I wrote more about that on my site: http://www.brianburridge.com/2007/04/11/the-real-world/
Dennis Wong 12 Apr 07
My definition of “Real World” is “Chaotic Rule Spectrum”.
There are rules, but there are always exceptions which break the rules, making the rules invalid. For the rules which can never be broken, they are simply ambiguous definitions, cannot be validated by itself and therefore, unbreakable.
Friend 12 Apr 07
‘Out of Mind’.
So the Matrix is not. And ideas that does not obey Real-World rules of action, such as: I will get rich, without working hard.
At where we are, being smart fooling the system, in such meaning that: you just simulate the rule of ‘obey Real-World rules of action’ is what Get you Real.
Yossef 12 Apr 07
Where products are used, not just made.
griff 12 Apr 07
The only constant is change.
Martin 12 Apr 07
‘now’
Scott Meade 12 Apr 07
Where people think technorati is some kind of pasta dish.
CC 12 Apr 07
wake wash eat drive work drive eat sleep wake worry
Paul Levy 13 Apr 07
“My experience equals the sum of the universe, yours doesn’t.”
himani225 13 Apr 07
where there are no assumptions
random8r 13 Apr 07
A relative, constructed mental space, used as proof in arguments.
random8r 13 Apr 07
Do you mean the real real world or not? ;-)
Marc Duchesne 13 Apr 07
The Real World : Where Dreams Never Come True.
Marc Duchesne 13 Apr 07
The Real World : Only God Knows.
Marc Duchesne 13 Apr 07
The Real World : When your girl-friend leaves you, there is no ’ back ’ button…
Marc Duchesne 13 Apr 07
The Real World : the place which was not designed by a software developer.
Bryan Wilhite 13 Apr 07
The real world refers to the concrete and abstract property or REAL estate owned by the authority figures lording over you.
When a person who does not own such property, a minion or lackey (or ass kisser), pulls the “real world” card they are effectively asking me to submit to the will of these property owners.
So it seems harmless to the properly assimilated. But, for the rest of us who dare to think outside of the box, the “real world” is no less than an appeal for slavery. So get your Confederate flags and keep it real!
Brian 13 Apr 07
Somewhere short of ideal.
matt m 13 Apr 07
Where complex, often illogical, constraints prevent simple plans from succeeding.
JT Helms 14 Apr 07
Everything after school.
School, apparently, is the fake world.
Tom 15 Apr 07
Not in Afghanistan, where I am.
6 words, how’s that? ;)
Jonathan Holst 15 Apr 07
Whoa. http://holst.biz/notes/2007/01/19/the-real-world/
Kevin Magee 15 Apr 07
Something I utterly avoid whenever possible!
Gordon Montgomery 15 Apr 07
human
kailden 17 Apr 07
world where definitions are not limited to 10 words max
Chris 17 Apr 07
Helmuth Von Moltke would say, “on the battlefield”
This discussion is closed.