# HG changeset patch # User wenzelm # Date 1365514834 -7200 # Node ID 8e0a1d0a41ff028e0f62930846e5767cb2dcc73b # Parent 5151706dc9a6bd4425b5beddeff3109641a39277 quote by Alan Kay; diff -r 5151706dc9a6 -r 8e0a1d0a41ff src/Doc/IsarImplementation/document/root.tex --- a/src/Doc/IsarImplementation/document/root.tex Tue Apr 09 15:37:23 2013 +0200 +++ b/src/Doc/IsarImplementation/document/root.tex Tue Apr 09 15:40:34 2013 +0200 @@ -70,6 +70,18 @@ Rob Pike and Brian W. Kernighan + \vspace*{1cm} + + {\small\em If you look at software today, through the lens of the + history of engineering, it's certainly engineering of a sort--but + it's the kind of engineering that people without the concept of + the arch did. Most software today is very much like an Egyptian + pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with + no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and + thousands of slaves.} + + Alan Kay + \end{quote} \thispagestyle{empty}\clearpage