I'm surprised nobody has referenced Donald Knuth's 1974 Turing Award speech, Computer Programming as an Art. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=361612 http:

I'm surprised nobody has referenced Donald Knuth's 1974 Turing Award speech, Computer Programming as an Art. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=361612 http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=361612 Paul Graham even posted it in its entirety here: http://www.paulgraham.com/knuth.html http://www.paulgraham.com/knuth.html This question hinges on how you define the terms science and art. I like Knuth's definitions.