Author of quotes: Edsger Vibe Dijkstra

COBOL programming cripples the brain, so teaching it should be considered a crime.

It is deeply erroneous to think that the products of programmers are the programs they write. The programmer is obliged to create trustworthy solutions and present them in the form of convincing arguments, and the text of the written program is only the accompanying material to which these proofs are applicable.

Projects that offer natural language programming are inherently disastrous.

It is almost impossible to teach good programming to students who have studied BASIC before. As potential programmers, they suffered irreversible mental degradation.

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of their making.

The question of whether a computer can think is not more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.