Dijkstra on patience
Already many a large organisation is nearly crushed under the sheer weight of the illogical, unmastered complexity of its automatic data processing systems. Things have to change and, therefore, will change. Perhaps we have to wait for a few more spectacular collapses until it dawns upon mankind that we had better understand what we are doing. I don’t believe in stagnation, I do believe in patience. The current tools will be replaced by better ones because the current ones are just too inadequate. — Dijkstra
