"This sort of thing happens easily in any field. Technical people create catchphrases, and people from outside, eager to be up-to-date, seize on the catchphrases as received wisdom, ideas that seem to span and comprehend all the possibilities. Those outsiders now spread the gospel to their own corners of the world, never quite sensing what an arbitrary selection has been made for them; failing to ask pointed questions, they in turn become opinion leaders for other outsiders who are even more afraid to ask."

Theodor Holm Nelson Literary Machines