Sam quoted Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #3)
“Can’t machines build these faster?” he asked the woman, looking around the starship shell.
“Why, of course!” she laughed.
“Then why do you do it?”
“It’s fun. You see one of these big mothers sail out those doors for the first time, heading for deep space, three hundred people on board, everything working, the Mind quite happy, and you think, I helped build that. The fact a machine could have done it faster doesn’t alter the fact that it was you who actually did it.”
— Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #3)