Why Has Elegance Found So Little Following?

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.

When We Had No Computers, We Had No Programming Problem Either. When We Had A Few Computers, We Had A Mild Programming Problem. Confronted With Machines A Million Times As Powerful, We Are Faced With A Gigantic Programming Problem.

Mathematicians Are Like Managers - They Want Improvement Without Change.

The Problems Of The Real World Are Primarily Those You Are Left With When You Refuse To Apply Their Effective Solutions.

I Mentioned The Non-competitive Spirit Explicitly, Because These Days, Excellence Is A Fashionable Concept. But Excellence Is A Competitive Notion, And That Is Not What We Are Heading For: We Are Heading For Perfection.