I first encountered the term "intron" when reading about Quines: http://www.madore.org/~david/computers/quine.html http://www.madore.org/~david/computers/quine.

I first encountered the term "intron" when reading about Quines: http://www.madore.org/~david/computers/quine.html http://www.madore.org/~david/computers/quine.html which made me wonder if "introns" in DNA are similar. After all, DNA can also be viewed as a "program" that prints its own source code out...