Laurent Bossavit

“A lot of research in software engineering strikes me as hopelessly naive in one of two ways. Most of it fails entirely to account for the social and belief aspects altogether. It looks at its object of inquiry as if it was entirely material and inert; as if “software” was some kind of naturally occurring substance, the properties of which can be revealed in the equivalent of a test tube.”
― Laurent Bossavit, The Leprechauns of Software Engineering