"Myname isAlice, but—" "It's a stupid name enough!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. "What does it mean?" "Must a name mean something?"Alice asked doubtfully. "Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh, "my name means the shape I am—and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost."
1968,Kurt Vonnegut,Welcome to the Monkey House, Delacorte Press, page xiv:
She was heavenly to look at, and graceful, both in and out of water. She was a sculptress. She was christened 'Alice', but she used to deny that she was really anAlice. I agreed. Everybody agreed. Sometime in a dream maybe I will find out what her real name was.
2024 November 7, Sophie Tanno, Sebastian Shukla and Olesya Dmitracova, “Germany’s normally stable government has collapsed. Here’s why”, inCNN[1]:
Party leaderAlice Weidel has already hailed the coalition’s collapse as a “liberation” for Germany.
(cryptography,physics) The person or system that sends a message to another person or system conventionally known asBob.
Alice sends the message, "I am Alice," to Bob. Bob chooses a nonce, and sends it toAlice.Alice encrypts the nonce using Alice and Bob's symmetric secret key,, and sends the encrypted nonce, back to Bob.
2009, N. David Mermin,It's About Time: Understanding Einstein's Relativity, Princeton University Press,→ISBN, page19:
Alice opens her lantern, Bob opens his the instant he seesAlice's, andAlice notes the time that passes between the moment she opens hers and the moment she sees the light returning to her from Bob's.
2002, Sylvia Lawson, “Budgerigars, and Positions of Ignorance”, inHow Simone de Beauvoir died in Australia: stories and essays,page17:
At that point in my second visit tothe Alice, I'd been there only a day.[…] they'redoing Australia in two weeks, with a few days each for Sydney, theAlice and the Rock, Kakadu and Cairns.
2003, Janet Judy McIntyre-Mills, quoting Olive Veverbrants,Critical systemic praxis for social and environmental justice, page27:
In 1892 my Chinese grandfather lived inAlice.
2004, Larry Habegger,Travelers' Tales Australia: True Stories, page 7:
"Don't waste yer time inThe Alice, get out and see the country — that's what yer 'ere for."
Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996,→ISBN
[3] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin,Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995,→ISBN: 32 481 females with the given name Alice living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with frequency peaks in the 19th century and in the 2000s decade. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
Alice (given name) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia