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 programmers themselves cannot predict.


James Gleick (2002). What just happened: a chronicle from the information frontier, p. 19 cited in: George Stepanek (2005), Software Project Secrets: Why Software Projects Fail, p. 10

James Gleick Quotes

Computer programs are the most intricate, delicately balanced and finely interwoven of all the products of human industry to date. They are machines...

Computer programs are the most intricate, delicately balanced and finely interwoven of all the products of human industry to date. They are machines...

Computer programs are the most intricate, delicately balanced and finely interwoven of all the products of human industry to date. They are machines...

Computer programs are the most intricate, delicately balanced and finely interwoven of all the products of human industry to date. They are machines...