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Cover Quote: June 2010
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Every tool designed by man is a prosthetic device, and for every prosthetic device there is a means of control. Many tools are physical, and their control is manual. In contrast, computers are the most complex tools ever invented, and they are tools of the mind; the means of control is hardly muscular—it is primarily linguistic. Quite simply, the versatility of computers is exactly equal to the versatility of the languages by which we prescribe their behaviour, and this appears to be unbounded.
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- Robin Milner
From a speech given by Robin Milner, on receiving an honorary degree from the University of Bologna in 1997, http://www.cs.unibo.it/icalp/Lauree_milner.html., 1997
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