> “When we said that sounds really exciting, like James Bond spy stuff, she said no, it wasn’t at all like that, it was very humdrum. We were operating machines night and day and it was incredibly boring work most of the time.

> “You just had to stand by the machines, you had to concentrate when you were programming it and make sure it was set up correctly, and the rest of the time you were there watching it, waiting for it to come up with something.”

Maybe I'm a bit dim...but I've just never gotten over how otherwise-intelligent-seeming people keep defaulting to "the real world is like Hollywood's fantasy spectacles".

OTOH, we live in a world where "Gell-Mann Amnesia effect" merits its own Wictionary page. So I probably am at least a bit dim...