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> The organizational love of mediocrity has severely hampered all sciences in their effort of contributing to the industrial effort,... Dijkstra gets that we s
by alan-crowe 17y ago
> The organizational love of mediocrity has severely hampered all sciences in their effort of contributing to the industrial effort,...
Dijkstra gets that we shouldn't anthropomorphise computers: they do what they do. Deal with it via logic. Then he ventures into sociology and his insight deserts him. Anthropomorphising organisations as persons who love unwisely leads nowhere.