Maybe it was an old joke, but it was new to me at the time - only time I had heard it, and I haven't heard it again in the many years since. And I think it say

Maybe it was an old joke, but it was new to me at the time - only time I had heard it, and I haven't heard it again in the many years since. And I think it says something useful about the impossibility of the task. The domains we work in are all about the expected inputs and expected outputs, and it takes a special kind of imagination to come up with parameters outside of those.