Samuel Coleridge famously claimed he was interrupted by a "man from Porlock" while writing down the poem Kubla Khan. There's some debate about whether he was us

Samuel Coleridge famously claimed he was interrupted by a "man from Porlock" while writing down the poem Kubla Khan. There's some debate about whether he was using interruption as an excuse for not finishing the poem. In any case, it's not just coders who hate having a train of thought broken.