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I'm going to print this out and frame it.

• qchris 6y ago
  Yeah, I just wrote this down to remember for later. What a quote.
  • ethbr0 6y ago
    Repressed humour from the programmer son of a pathologist. My favorite dad quip was 'Biology itself is proof against an intelligent designer.'
    • xlm1717 6y ago
      Biology is too "complicated" for our intelligence at least.
      • ethbr0 6y ago
        His point was more along the lines of it being poorly designed. Evolution isn't going to nicely separate functionality into clean, single-purpose biochemical pathways. It's going to overload something that it already has to support a new feature, leading to a rat's nest of intertwined effects. The hard part in drug development isn't affecting your target: that's pretty easy to guarantee with modern tools. It's finding out that that target also governs 10 other, completely unrelated bodily functions.
        • landryraccoon 6y ago
          > It's going to overload something that it already has to support a new feature, Some companies in the valley just call that Wednesday.=)
          • ethbr0 6y ago
            Absolutely, which gives me a chuckle when people trivialize biology, but run screaming from a (gasp!) 20 year old legacy codebase.