QC uses a library http://hashids.org/ to generate UUID's for quotes I've always been skeptical of the implementation though it hasn't failed yet! Likely we won't use GO, but there are some great points in this article.

“While telegraphs were mainly used for important governmental and business communications, telephones were an extreme luxury. Compared to the speed of the telegraph, tying up an expensive copper line for a quick chat was incredibly frivolous. The key invention that brought telecommunications to the masses was the switchboard, enabling the creation of exchanges, and in turn vastly increased the utility of these lines. With it brought the first unique identifier in a network: the telephone number.”
— Rick Branson, A Brief History of the UUID
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