“I was a little bit disappointed, actually. If you look up cellular automata on one of these computer searching things you'll find that there had been about a hundred papers written about them by 1981 or something, and so I went and looked up a whole bunch of these things, but they were boring. They were so boring! They were an illustration of a sad fact about science, which is that if someone comes up with an original idea, then there will be fifty papers following up on the most boring possible application of the idea, trying to improve on little pieces of details that are completely irrelevant.” - Stephen Wolfram