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Spoken to a group of programmers at the 1996 OOPSLA Convention by the architect Christopher Alexander, who wrote a foundational book on patterns.

"The moral preoccupation with the need for a good environment, and for the living structure of built environment, and the objective nature of that question, is largely accepted [in architecture]. I do not know whether that sort of moral component exists in computer science, or in software engineering"

In 2018 we can quite confidently say it doesn't.