"People understand instinctively that the best way for
computer programs to communicate with each other is for each
of them to be strict in what they emit, and liberal in what
they accept. The odd thing is that people themselves are not
willing to be strict in how they speak and liberal in how
they listen. You'd think that would also be obvious."
-- Larry Wall, Inventor of Perl. (Thanks to
acroyear70
for
pointing it out.)
programs and people
Show me a program or script with a set of fluky neurotransmitters and hormone levels, and then, please, quickly delete it. Do they feel pain when one hits that key? Oh, dear.
I like to think people construct programs to be better than the people are. (rest of comment deleted)