Idiots

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.

And another thing…

I’m not really sure about my feelings about this, from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7619828.stm :

New Hitchhiker’s author announced

Children’s author Eoin Colfer has been commissioned to write a sixth instalment of the Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy series.

Maybe that universe just shouldn’t be tampered with by anyone but Douglas Adams…. Or maybe it will be a brillant followup that will enchant all of us for years to come?