On Monday, November 16, 2020, 02:59:25 PM PST, professor rat
   <pro2rat@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

   >[1]A quote from All Quiet on the Western Front
   >Its just silly to say Hackers alone created the basis for AP
   One inspiration for my AP essay was the Wizard of Oz:  Dorothy and her
   friends approach the Wizard, asking for the various things they want.
   His response?  "Bring me the broomstick of the Wicked Witch of the
   West, and I'll grant your request!".   One of the friends observes, as
   I recall, 'to do that, we'll have to kill her!'.  So, giving a reward
   for killing a common enemy might have come from this.
   Many decades ago, the movie was shown on television, yearly, I think in
   the late fall.  My mother once observed that I first saw it, perhaps
   when I was 18 months old, perhaps October 1959.  She said that this
   showing was the first time I'd been quiet for 2 straight hours since I
   was born.  I probably watched that movie for 20 years in a row for the
   next two decades.
               Jim Bell

References

   1. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/786467-kropp-on-the-other-hand-is-a-thinker-he-proposes