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

[Jason Dusek]

2009/10/27 Christoph Maier <cm.hardware.software.elsewhere at gmail.com>:
> 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?
>
> Quoting Dijkstra, are you?
>
> GOTO hell.

  I am trying to see this as a constructive or funny but I'm
  having a hard time.

--
Jason Dusek