In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Optimization hinders evolution.
Every reader should ask himself periodically “Toward what end, toward what end?”—but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.