16/12/2010
“ Despite a swarm of hand-waving vision-painters and post-hoc vision-claimers, much of the progress that has occurred in the computer field has arisen simply from people’s curiosity about the next step - the desire to push the frontiers - rather than from clear visions of the future. „
Severo M. Ornstein
from “Computing in the Middle Ages: A View from the Trenches 1955-1983” (link)