I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Last Chance to See, ch. 2 (1990) [with Mark Carwardine]
(Source)
The source BBC Radio documentary (1989-11-01) can no longer be played at the BBC site.
Adams reading the 1992 audiobook can be heard here.
Hehe 🙂
I like this one.
It’s certainly something I do far too often for my boss’s comfort. Though it usually comes in handy when he turns around and asks for a change that my over-architecting allows me to do incrementally, rather than starting from scratch.