[Noisebridge-discuss] Dijkstra's "There is still a war going on"

[Christoph Maier]

On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 16:34 -0700, Jason Dusek wrote:
> I am a great fan of Dijkstra's writing. Something that
>   recently showed up on Reddit:
> 
>     http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD11xx/EWD1165.html
> 
>   He makes such a strong case for the role of the technician,
>   the scientist, as the creator of value that ultimately makes
>   our modern world possible. Surely this is correct; but is he
>   missing something? The dominance of the business/marketing
>   side is undeniable; if technicians were really so powerful,
>   would we not have managed to overcome our thralldom by now?
> 
> --
> Jason Dusek

Quoting Dijkstra, are you?

GOTO hell.

Christoph
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benefits to the organization; 
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