"Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head."

- Charles Strauss
()

"For an evolutionary system, continuing development is needed just in order to maintain its fitness relative to the system it is co-evolving with. "

- Leigh van Valen
(Red Queen Principle)
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