“May, in spite of all distractions generated by technology, all of you succeed in turning information into knowledge, knowledge into understanding, and understanding into wisdom.”

— Edsger W. Dijkstra

Dijkstra (1998) https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/vl/notes/dijkstra.html
1990s

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