From 519848e0f5bfd1117d8d69db5be3fea12d425d59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shlomi Fish Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2022 07:41:38 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] add a quote --- fortune-mod/datfiles/science | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) 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 % +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 +% -- 2.40.0