Small minds try to form religions, the great ones just want better routes up the mountain

24 July 2015

Small minds try to form religions, the great ones just want better routes up the mountain

Alan C. Kay, Early History Of Smalltalk

Of course, philosophy is about opinion and engineering is about deeds, with science the happy medium somewhere in between

Where Newton said he saw further by standing on the shoulder of giants, computer scientists all too often stand on each other’s toes