It's amazing/depressing how much ingenuity goes into killing people. It reminds me of this: "Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he'll come up

It's amazing/depressing how much ingenuity goes into killing people. It reminds me of this: "Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he'll come up with something that looks like the boxes that the shoes came in; ask him to make something that will massacre Germans, and he turns into Thomas Fucking Edison." -- "Cryptonomicon", Neal Stephenson