Add an observation by Dijkstra software engineering.
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What is a magician but a practicing theorist?
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-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
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What is actually happening, I am afraid, is that we all tell each
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other and ourselves that software engineering techniques should be
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improved considerably, because there is a crisis. But there are a few
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boundary conditions which apparently have to be satisfied:
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1. We may not change our thinking habits.
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2. We may not change our programming tools.
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3. We may not change our hardware.
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4. We may not change our tasks.
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5. We may not change the organizational set-up
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in which the work has to be done.
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Now under these five immutable boundary conditions, we have to try to
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improve matters. This is utterly ridiculous.
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Edsger W. Dijkstra, on receiving the ACM Turing Award in 1972
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What is mind? No matter.
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What is matter? Never mind.
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-- Thomas Hewitt Key, 1799-1875
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