"Ford," he said, "you're turning into a penguin. Stop it."

[emmelinemay]

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"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."

He was desperately worried that one day sentinent life forms would forget how to do this. Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers.

i ♥ Douglas Adams. A philosopher trapped in a cynical procrastinating body.

oh, and:

If they had been vicious snarling slavering beasts with glistening fangs she would have pitched into them with a will, but squirrels behaving like this she couldn't quite handle.

i do keep warning you about the squirrels.

Comments

[nyecamden.livejournal.com]

That's really cool.

[lusercop.livejournal.com]

One bit of code has a comment at the bottom that read "Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.", so another one now has:

 Now it is such a bizarrely impossible coincidence that anything so
 mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers
 have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the nonexistence of
 God. The argument goes something like this:
   "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and
    without faith I am nothing."
   "But," say Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not
    have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own
    arguments, you don't. QED."
   "Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't though of that" and promply vanishes in a
    puff of logic.