Edsgar W. Dijkstra Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

4 Famous Quotes by Edsgar W. Dijkstra
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“The tools we use have a profound (and devious!) influence on our thinking habits, and, therefore, on our thinking abilities.”
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“FORTRAN --'the infantile disorder'--, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use. PL/I --'the fatal disease'-- belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set. It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence. APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.”
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“About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.”
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“Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”
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