And the question I asked myself that afternoon in the garden, working alongside that bumblebee, was what did I and that bumblebee have in common?

That's why the mascot of Internet engineering, if it had one, is said to be the bumblebee.

Because the fur to wingspan ratio of the bumblebee is far too large for it to be able to fly.

Even the beautiful bumblebee, with its mere one million brain cells, which is 250 times fewer cells than you have in one retina, sees illusions, does the most complicated things that even our most sophisticated computers can't do.