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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Quote of the Day

From the book I'm reading for Psychology, Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works:

"The mind is never so wonderfully concentrated as when it turns to love, and there must be intricate calculations that carry out the peculiar logic of attraction, infatuation, courtship, coyness, surrender, commitment, malaise, philandering, jealousy, desertion, and heartbreak. And in the end, as my grandmother used to say, every pot finds a cover; most people-including, significantly, all of our ancestors-manage to pair up long enough to produce viable children.

Imagine how many lines of programming it would take to duplicate that!"

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