Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum of moo. And I am afraid to say that these days all I get is moo.

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Conditional instructions in the ARM1 processor, reverse engineered (righto.com) By carefully examining the layout of the ARM1 processor, it can be reverse engineered. This article describes the interesting circuit used for conditional instructions: this circuit is marked in red on the die photo below. Unlike most processors, the ARM executes every instruction conditionally. Each instruction specifies a condition and is only executed if the condition is satisfied. For every instruction, the condition circuit reads the condition from the instruction register (blue), evaluates the condition flags (purple), and informs the control logic (yellow) if the instruction should be executed or skipped.

Jingo (novel) (Wikipedia) Jingo is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, part of his Discworld series. It was published in 1997.
Terry Pratchett (Wikipedia) Sir Terence David John Pratchett OBE (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English humourist, satirist, and author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his Discworld series of 41 novels.