In fact, my main conclusion after spending ten years of my life working on the TEX project is that software is hard. It’s harder than anything else I’ve ever had to do.

— Donald Knuth, All Questions Answered (2002)

Source: http://www.ams.org/notices/200203/fea-knuth.pdf

Printed Q&A in the Notices of the AMS (2002).

Topics: software engineering