An uncountable number of philosophical commitments

In the preface to his book Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction, Paul Dourish writes:

"Every piece of software reflects an uncountable number of philosophical commitments and perspectives without which it could never be created. Software depends inevitably on our ideas about representation and reality."

This is, in my humble opinion, an important insight that's all too often forgotten or overlooked.