
ὁ δὲ ἀπεκρίνατο, μὴ εἶναι βασιλικὴν ἀτραπὸν ἐπὶ γεωμετρίαν.
and he answered that there was no royal road to geometry






There is no royal road, but there is a road.

No Silver Bullet
Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering

Computer Magazine; April 1987
by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
