"My feeling since 1962 has been that, even if Computer Science should turn out to be fully developed and fairly static by 1985, it will have been very important for universities to have created Computer Science Departments in the years 1960-1970. For, given the departmental structure of universities (which I deplore), I don't see how universities could otherwise have got roiling on research in this area. And without this research, much of the quality of computer usage in universities would be frozen at the level of Early FORTRAN."

(Memorandum von George Forsythe, 1970.)