From: Shlomi Fish <shlomif@shlomifish.org>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2022 04:41:38 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: add a quote
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X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=519848e0f5bfd1117d8d69db5be3fea12d425d59;p=fortune-mod

add a quote
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diff --git a/fortune-mod/datfiles/science b/fortune-mod/datfiles/science
index 36ab90b..7a55161 100644
--- a/fortune-mod/datfiles/science
+++ b/fortune-mod/datfiles/science
@@ -3027,3 +3027,19 @@ A coding theorist is someone who doesn't think Alice is crazy.
     -- John Gordon, "Alice and Bob After-Dinner Speech", Zurich Seminar,
        April 1984
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+I recall a conversation where I told that in the comics HelpDex, the
+protagonist has wondered whether God was a programmer and in what programming
+language he wrote the universe. Then she had a dream where she heard God
+saying "I will tell you in which language I wrote the universe:
+Object-Oriented [COBOL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL)!" at which point
+the protagonist wakes up scared.
+
+Then, a different participant who had immigrated from the former Soviet Union
+said that he was reminded of a story he read in a Soviet science magazine,
+where God and his angels were technicians who kept changing the universe based
+on how humans perceived it. Then during the 20th century, they had to implement
+subatomic particles, black holes and more, and fondly recalled how they once
+took a giant world turtle, put four elephants on top, and called it a day
+
+    -- via Shlomi Fish
+%