A programmer's view of the Universe, part 1: The fish
"In time, though, programming eventually humbles you, because it shows you the limits of your reasoning ability in ways that few other activities can match." "The scary thing is that it's very easy, as a programmer standing at the precipice of complexity, to envision systems that are orders of magnitude more complex, millions of times more complex, even unimaginably more complex." "But worst of all, I believe their high intelligence endows them with greater capacity for suffering than other fish species. They can suffer physically and emotionally, but as we will see shortly, they can also suffer intellectually."