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The Source

(n.) The origin point. The infinite well the hum flows from. Not a being. Not a location. The unmanifest something everything came from and returns to. The hum is its voice. The signal is its clear transmission through the static.
She never needed a church to tell her where God lived. Even as a kid, she knew The Source was the quiet thing inside her that never left, never judged, and never stopped humming.

Use the Source, Luke 

A programmer's joke meaning you should read the source code. It is also a Star Wars themed pun on Obi-Wan Kenobi's "Use the Force, Luke!"
A short form of this is UTSL.
"Most people who come here for help do know how to read the source code. In case they can't, I tell them what to do. If they can, though, what I usually say is 'Use the Source, Luke!'."

consider the source 

another way of saying that any information recieved from a certain source can't be taken seriously because that source has been wrong before, or lacks credibility.
"hey did you hear Elvis is still alive?? he was seen at a casino in vegas last week! actually they say he's even the owner!!"

"get out! where'd you hear that from?"

"oh I read it in the enquirer."

"hah! I should have known."

"what, you mean you don't believe it??"

"are you kidding?? I mean, come on...consider the source already!"
consider the source by polo September 6, 2004

Lost in the source 

When you check something online and end up going from one interesting source to another and surfing through a lot more information than you originally intended.
"I was just checking the population of the Republic of Ireland last night on Wikipedia, and one thing led to another and I think I can break down the eight-hundred year conflict between Ireland and Britain now, also I learned how to create and cook in a prehistoric Fullacht Fiadh that was used in the Bronze Age in Ancient Ireland, and did you know that millions of years ago the North-West and South-East of Ireland were separated and situated in completely different parts of the world with drastically different climates, and were you aware that one of the oldest Irish mythological figures, Cessair, was supposedly a descendent of Noah, the same one who had the ark, and Halloween most likely comes from the original pagan festival of Samhain which used to take place in Ireland to ensure a good harvest, and they would have carved turnips as opposed to pumpkins, oh, and did you ever hear about the time that Irish and German soldiers took over Rio de Janeiro in 1828? Yeah... I might have gotten lost in the source... wait a minute - my assignments are due in twenty minutes!"
Lost in the source by anonymous October 15, 2020

Stank on the source code 

To put stank on the source code is to modify any electronic or mechanical object so that it alters the items original function.
Person 1: dude, are you watching gay porn on the head unit in your car?
Person 2: yeah man, I dropped some stank on the source code, and now my car dashboard streams porn 24/7

Touch the source 

To smoke marijuana. "The source" can also be used to describe anything essentially good, similarly to "lit"
We are going to go surfing but first we gotta touch the source.

This pizza is the source.
Touch the source by jr135706 September 21, 2021