^"It's amazing to me to think about: It's not that programming is a lot like life. It's that LIFE *IS* programming. We are the living entities of a program. But we've been compiled already and don't have access to the Original Code. So we're hacking it over the thousands of years of human history, to try to understand our programming." -me, inspired in a conversation with J.F., 7/16/13 8:10pm^