If There Is One 'scientific'

Simplicity Is A Great Virtue But It Requires Hard Work To Achieve It And Education To Appreciate It. And To Make Matters Worse: Complexity Sells Better.

I Would Therefore Like To Posit That Computing's Central Challenge, How Not To Make A Mess Of It, Has Not Yet Been Met.

In The Good Old Days Physicists Repeated Each Other's Experiments, Just To Be Sure. Today They Stick To Fortran, So That They Can Share Each Other's Programs, Bugs Included.

Thank Goodness We Don't Have Only Serious Problems, But Ridiculous Ones As Well.

If In Physics There's Something You Don't Understand, You Can Always Hide Behind The Uncharted Depths Of Nature. You Can Always Blame God. You Didn't Make It So Complex Yourself. But If Your Program Doesn't Work, There Is No One To Hide Behind. You Cannot Hide Behind An Obstinate Nature. If It Doesn't Work, You've Messed Up.