“Confronted with a task, and having less information available than is needed to perform that task, an organization may react in either of two ways. …

If the man of action, in Goethe’s phrase, is without conscience, he is also without knowledge: he forgets most things in order to do one, he is unjust to what is behind him, and only recognises one law, the law of that which is to be. …

Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning. (Rich Cook) Computer programming is fun. This is the only truth. Don’t trust who says that it is…