Gleick on Software

 

“Software is different from other merchandise. Computer programs are the most intricate, delicately balanced, and finely interwoven of all the products of human industry to date.  They are machines with far more moving parts than any engine:  the parts don’t wear out, but they interact and rub up against one another in ways the builders themselves cannot always predict.”

 

James Gleick, author of Chaos and Genius (the biography of Richard Feynman – Nobel Prize winning physicist) – in a New York Times interview.

 Date Posted: 16 Dec 2008 @ 05 01 PM
Last Modified: 31 Dec 2008 @ 04 02 PM
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