Edsger Wybe Dijkstra in 1982 on "users" [1] (please read the rest of the EWD as it is too much to paste here): "The computer “user” isn’t a real person of fles

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra in 1982 on "users" [1] (please read the rest of the EWD as it is too much to paste here): "The computer “user” isn’t a real person of flesh and blood, with passions and brains. No, he is a mythical figure, and not a very pleasant one either. A kind of mongrel with money but without taste, an ugly caricature that is very uninspiring to work for. He is, as a matter of fact, such an uninspiring idiot that his stupidity alone is a sufficient explanation for the ugliness of most computer systems. And oh! Is he uneducated! That is perhaps his most depressing characteristic. He is equally education-resistant as another equally mythical bore, “the average programmer”, whose solid stupidity is the greatest barrier to progress in programming. " [1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD618.html https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/E...