% METHOD: Quine
% WHAT: A program whose function consists of displaying its own code. Also known as  "self-replicating program"
% WHY: Quines show the tension between "software as language" and "software as operation".
% HOW: By running a quine you will get your code back. You may do a step forward and wonder about functionality and aesthetics, uselessness and performativity, data and code. 

% EXAMPLE:

Example of a quine (Python). When executed it outputs the same text as the source:

```python
    s =  's = %r\nprint(s%%s)'
    print(s%s)
```

Example of a oneline unibash/etherpad quine, created during relearn 2017:
% QUAVERBATIM: https://gitlab.com/relearn/relearn2017/raw/master/complex.local/home/etherpad/etherdump/quine.raw.txt

% WARNING: 
The encounter with quines may deeply affect you. 
You may want to write one and get lost in trying to make an ever shorter and more elegant one.
You may also take quines as point of departure or limit-ideas for exploring software dualisms.
% INCLUDE: http://observatory.constantvzw.org/etherdump/auqinas 79-82

% REMEMBER: Although seemingly absolutely useless, quines can be used as exploits.
% INCLUDE: http://observatory.constantvzw.org/etherdump/files.md 460-463

% SEEALSO: http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/observatory.guide.monopsychism
% SOURCE: Part of Aquine, a discussion of and research into dualism in software http://observatory.constantvzw.org/etherdump/auqinas.diff.html