"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence." "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."
"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
"The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim."
"I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me."
"Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California."
"Teaching BASIC should be a criminal offense."
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I've got spurs that jingle jangle jingle.
As I go riding merrily along.
And they sing, "Oh, ain't you glad you're single?"
And that song ain't so very far from wrong.
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