"The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep the waters pure." --Thomas Jefferson

"Software engineering (SE) has probably largest concentration of snake oil salesmen. Even object-oriented design cannot compete with SE ;-). Such "dynamic" figures as Yourdon, Ben Shneiderman and partially Gerard Weinberg... can change their own position twice a week, as they sense that something new becomes fashionable" Skeptical Software Engineering Bibliography

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Tutorial on Recursion Programming

Useless Movie Quotes

Diatribe On Programming Language Design Features

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