We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?
It is not the computer’s fault that Maxwell’s equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Computation has made the tree flower.