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]
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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.