"Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer."
— Capricious

January 1, 1970

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Fred Brooks in: Rebecca Slayton Arguments that Count: Physics, Computing, and Missile Defense, 1949-2012, MIT Press, 16 August 2013, p. 191.