Here's an extraordinary silly quote that we'll return to over the next hour -
"What should reassure the technophiles, and unsettle the technophobes, is our world of lousy code. Because it is lousy code that is bringing the digital universe to life, rather than leaving us stuck in some programmed, deterministic universe devoid of life. It is that primordial soup of archaic subroutines, ambiguous DLL's, crashing Windows, and living — fossil operating systems that is driving the push towards the sort of fault embracing template — based addressing that proved so successful in molecular biology, with us — and our computers — as one of its strangest results.
Let us praise sloppy instructions, as we also praise the Lord."
Thank you, George Dyson.
And while we're at it, George, let us praise unfunny jokes and inedible food. Or unworkable biological metaphors.
Since this would make an engineer from any planet feel sick, I'll offer no comment at this stage. Let's just say this doesn't show us in our most favorable light.