It is time to unmask the computing community as a Secret Society for the Creation and Preservation of Artificial Complexity. (Edsger W. Dijkstra)

It is time to unmask the computing community as a Secret Society for the Creation and Preservation of Artificial Complexity.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

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