In the software business there are many enterprises for which it is not clear that science can help them; that science should try is not clear either.
Edsger DijkstraFORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
Edsger DijkstraIt used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.
Edsger Dijkstra