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“The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense and more concerned with the semantics than the syntax of modules.”

Fernando J. Corbató

"A Managerial View of the Multics System Development" (1978)

“One is faced with a dilemma: If one places total trust in all other users, one is vulnerable to the antisocial behavior of any malicious user—consider the case of viruses. But if one tries to be totally reclusive and isolated, one is not only bored, but one's information universe will cease to grow and be enhanced by interaction with others. The result is that most of us operate in a complicated trade-off zone with various arrangements of trust and security mechanisms.”

Fernando J. Corbató

Source: On Building Systems That Will Fail (1991), p. 79

“Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to systems.”

Fernando J. Corbató

Source: On Building Systems That Will Fail (1991), p. 78