Unless Clippy has been brainwashing some humans, the joys of paperclipping are not as alien to the human mind as we had thought:
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/design/2012/05/the_history_of_the_paper_clip_it_was_invented_in_1899_it_hasn_t_been_improved_upon_since_.single.html
“Should I buy now or wait for the new models?” is a refrain so often heard from the panicky first-timer, who forgets that the number of sledgehammer innovations in the last three thousand years can be counted on one finger.
-Steve Martin
Unless Clippy has been brainwashing some humans, the joys of paperclipping are not as alien to the human mind as we had thought:
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/design/2012/05/the_history_of_the_paper_clip_it_was_invented_in_1899_it_hasn_t_been_improved_upon_since_.single.html
-Steve Martin