"the separation of practical and theoretical work is artificial and injurious"

“It has long been my personal view that the separation of practical and theoretical work is artificial and injurious. Much of the practical work done in computing, both in software and in hardware design, is unsound and clumsy because the people who do it have not any clear understanding of the fundamental design principles of their work. Most of the abstract mathematical and theoretical work is sterile because it has no point of contact with real computing.”

Christopher Strachey
cité par David Barron
dans
Computer RESURRECTION
The Bulletin of the Computer Conservation Society
ISSN 0958-7403
Number 43
Summer 2008