“The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwri...

“The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor, however powerful, has ever exercised such absolute authority to arrange a stage or field of battle and to command such unswervingly dutiful actors or troops.”
― Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation (1976)