The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.
Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will or the resources to do it alone, but a consortium of nations and space agencies could achieve it within 20 years.
Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.