Probably I Am Very Naive,

When Building Sand Castles On The Beach, We Can Ignore The Waves But Should Watch The Tide.

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

Much Of The Excitement We Get Out Of Our Work Is That We Don't Really Know What We Are Doing.

Program Testing Can Be Used To Show The Presence Of Bugs, But Never To Show Their Absence!

… What Society Overwhelmingly Asks For Is Snake Oil. Of Course, The Snake Oil Has The Most Impressive Names — Otherwise You Would Be Selling Nothing — Like “structured Analysis And Design”, “software Engineering”, “maturity Models”, “management Information Systems”, “integrated Project Support Environments” “object Orientation” And “business Process Re-engineering”.