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Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying Blood...blood...blood...blood... ✨ Douglas Adams (2009). The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, p.91, Pan Macmillan
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Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying Blood...blood...blood...blood... ✨ Douglas Adams (2009). The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, p.91, Pan Macmillan

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