Interaction as a basis for empirical computer science
Peter W. Wegner · ACM Computing Surveys · 1995
Computer scientists are blessed with a universal device which can be instructed to perform any computation and simulate any physical process (as described by our current laws of physics), but which is therefore chaotic and must be controlled with unprecedented precision.This is achieved by the successive layers of implemented abstraction wrapped around the chaotic universal machines that help to bridge the many orders of magnitude in the scale of things, JURIS HARTMANIS, Communications