When we had no computers, we had no programming problem either. When we had a few computers, we had a mild programming problem. Confronted with machines a million times as powerful, we are faced with a gigantic programming problem.

— Edsger W. Dijkstra, Visuals for BP's Venture Research Conference (1986)

Source: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD09xx/EWD963.html

Topics: programming, complexity