Reading Back

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Recently, I've been re-reading some 'classic' texts from my university years and after, to pass the time. Most recently, Gerald M. Weinberg, The psychology of computer programming from 1971. In a section on personality testing, it contains this gem, which I couldn't resist sharing:

Naturally, we feel that mentally I'll people are not what we are looking for when we hire programmers - although there are no empirical data to support or contradict that view.