pennyworth

If we went around the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or my work.

If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

One issue I'd identified years ago is what I call the Pennyworth Problem.

I have an eleven year old daughter, and I'm constantly quoting the movie version of Alfred Pennyworth to her, in the perennial hope that some day it will just click.

I endeavored to convince him that the bodily strength afforded by beer could only be in proportion to the grain or flour of the barley dissolved in the water of which it was made; that there was more flour in a pennyworth of bread; and therefore, if he would eat that with a pint of water, it would give him more strength than a quart of beer.

But where Pennyworth might hypothetically betray Wayne specifically, PennyworthAI could betray all of Gotham, all of the United States, and all of Earth, whether to the legitimate operators of the service, to a government demanding control over it, or to some third party identifying an opportunity and availing themselves of it.

From The Dark Knight Alfred Pennyworth -> "Some men just want to watch the world burn." The Joker -> "It's not about money...

There's a famous line from the 2008 Batman film "The Dark Knight" in which Bruce Wayne's butler Alfred Pennyworth is trying to explain to Bruce and help him understand the Joker, his new sadistic and unpredictable archenemy: "Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money.

Alfred Pennyworth: Well, because he thought it was good sport.