"The adverse impact on development productivity of requiring programmers to navigate along access paths to reach targe…"

"The most important motivation for the research work that resulted in the relational model was the objective of provid…"

"It is no surprise that attempts such as those of CODASYL and ANSI to develop data structure language (DDL) and data m…"

"Relational processing entails treating whole relationships as operands. Its primary purpose is loop-avoidance, an abs…"

"At the time, Nixon was normalizing relations with China. I figured that if he could normalize relations, then so coul…"

"I could imagine how those queries would have been represented in CODASYL by programs that were five pages long that w…"

"The twentieth century had conclusively settled the question of how a society should be organised: liberal democracy, …"

"For James, there was no sense that expanding Tesco’s sales onto the web was what the human race urgently needed. It d…"

"It was insane that you had to pretend to be interested in your job and use these lame phrases like “pinging things ov…"

"James had assumed this would be a task of meticulous detection, of inefficiencies brilliantly uncovered, but there wa…"