| This system was difficult to use because store employees needed to remember arcane instructions and enter a lot of keystrokes. |
| For a long time, Irving used his streetwise independence to dazzle career academics with the arcane quality of his research. |
| His telling anecdotes draw on years of personal acquaintance with key figures, and alert attendance at arcane, cultish tech conferences. |
| I could find a mentor and follow them around, learning the arcane and mystical art of pointing. |
| They conjure up images of dusty old offices, arcane inventions and oddball inventors. |
| Those interested in the more arcane hagiographical matters will enjoy the appendices to this readable volume. |
