Has any one read this "quote" about the Rare Earth Hypothesis (see details)?

I can't remember it word for word but the author wrote something along the lines of "I was driving around today and I saw a license plate that read LKJ-209. Isn't that amazing? Out of all the license plates possible, that is the one I saw." He/she related it to the Rare Earth Hypothesis in that we can say the same about Earth. Isn't it amazing? Yet we know nothing else to compare it to. Anyway, I am looking for the author who wrote this. If anyone has read it before, please let me know. Thank you!|||I have been looking for your question for over an hour now. I read it yesterday. Later that night, in the book "A Short History of Nearly Everything", the author Bill Bryson quotes Richard Fienman as say "I was driving today and saw a car with the lisence plate of ARW 357, what are the odds...." (Not sure of the spelling of Richard Feinman, It was pronounced "Fine Man", ...audiobook) Hope this helps.|||Rare Earth, a science book written by two University of Washington colleagues, geologist Peter Ward and astronomer Don Brownlee (W%26amp;B) depicts our galaxy as a lonely place dotted with hostile lifeless planets orbiting stars that are mostly too hot, too cold, too unstable, or too short-lived to sustain the development of complex life. W%26amp;B argue that while bacterial life may be very common in the universe, complex multi-cellular and animal life forms must be rare, and intelligent life very rare indeed. This is what Ward and Brownlee call the Rare Earth Hypothesis|||I think that short story shows up in a composition of Feynman's lectures called "The Meaning of it All" ... Pretty sure.|||I have not encountered the quote. Obviously, the plate is a run of the mill issue from the DMV, and has no significance other than having been at the top of the pile when it was issued. There isn't much relationship between this bit of happenstance and the happenstance of the earth's condition as a habitable place other than that both are happenstance.