"The computer field is intoxicated with change. We have seen galloping growth over a period of four decades and it still does not seem to be slowing down. The field is not mature yet and already it accounts for a significant percentage of the Gross National Product."
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Fernando J. Corbató, On Building Systems That Will Fail, (1991), p. 75
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