Schlangenöl

“[...] that what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names - otherwise you would be selling nothing - like Structured Analysis and Design, Software Engineering, Maturity Models, Management Information Systems, Integrated Project Support Environments, Object Orientation and Business Process Re-engineering (the latter three being known as IPSE, OO and BPR, respectively).”

– Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930-2002), niederländischer Informatiker in The strengths of the academic enterprise