Edsger W.Dijkstra, 18 June 1975 from https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd04xx/EWD498.PDF Sometimes we discover unpleasant truths. Whenever we do so, we are in difficulties: suppressing them is scientifically dishonest, so we must tell them, but telling them, however, will fire back on us. If the truths are sufficiently impalatable, our audience is psychically incapable of accepting them and we will be written off as totally unrealistic, hopelessly idealistic, dangerously revolutionary, foolis...