> I believe that Dijkstra's quote should be attributed to Mike Fellows, since it is fairly clear that Dijkstra heard it from him. Although the earliest appearance in print appears to be in our 1993 article, in my opinion Mike deserves sole attribution. He made up the part that is quoted so widely. I simply tacked on a bit at the end that nobody bothers to quote. Here it is again, correctly attributed for posterity.
Says this guy: ianparberry.com/research/cseducation/
But that's 1993, and MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, 1986 has an extremely similar quote (though doesn't actually mention telescope + astronomy).
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It's not clear who said it first.
> I believe that Dijkstra's quote should be attributed to Mike Fellows, since it is fairly clear that Dijkstra heard it from him. Although the earliest appearance in print appears to be in our 1993 article, in my opinion Mike deserves sole attribution. He made up the part that is quoted so widely. I simply tacked on a bit at the end that nobody bothers to quote. Here it is again, correctly attributed for posterity.
Says this guy: ianparberry.com/research/cseducation/
But that's 1993, and MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, 1986 has an extremely similar quote (though doesn't actually mention telescope + astronomy).
I'm writing this comment live, and I just found this! https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/04/02/computer-science/
Variations of this has been said by many people, over a fairly long period of time. Fascinating :-).