The full Edsger Dijkstra paragraph: " The Fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in an

The full Edsger Dijkstra paragraph: " The Fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker and Alan M. Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether Machines Can Think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim." https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD898.html https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/E... > It performs tasks, and does them in its own way. The question is this: Are submarines 'artificial fish'? (Dijkstra's typically cranky rant* was addressing something entirely different - note the title of the talk.) * this humble HN user is simply channeling the iconoclastic spirit of the 'great man'.