Simon Willison’s Weblog

Some Darwinists might say your optimal strategy would be to pair-bond with the older male but surreptitiously allow the younger, sexy male to fertilise you. But be careful, most men consider being cuckolded the greatest of betrayals.

— The Guardian's Evolutionary Agony Aunt

# 16th December 2009, 3:20 pm / evolution, the-guardian, funny

Don't EVER make the mistake that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence much too much credit.

— Linus Torvalds

# 16th December 2007, 9:53 pm / linus-torvalds, evolution, open-source, linux, programming