On resistance to change in computer science
Irving Ziller, one of the original members of the FORTRAN team, describing the resistance of early programmers to the introduction of a compiler: "And in the background was the scepticism, the entrenchment of many of the people who did programming in this way at that time; what was called 'hand-to-hand combat' with the machine." From https://www.cs.man.ac.uk/CCS/res/res41.htm