You are disoriented. Blackness swims toward you like a school of eels who have just seen something that eels like a lot. - Douglas Adams

Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much.

What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your own mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that’s really the essence of programming. By the time you’ve sorted out a complicated idea
into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you’ve certainly learned something about it yourself. The teacher usually learns more than the pupil. Isn’t that true?

Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.