He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars

General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer

For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organised particulars

-- William Blake

"the Competing Predictions of Edsger Dijkstra and Douglas Engelbart"

Dang! Reading the last paragraph I thought, “Well, this ends right when it gets interesting”. Then I realized the “Excerpted from…” Clearly, I wasn’t paying attention that I’m reading LitHub. Has anyone read the book already? I’m intrigued.