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• About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt ax.
  It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. -- Edsger Dijkstra...
• A blunt instrument.
• Projects promoting programming in "natural language" are intrinsicly doomed to fail.
  -- Edsger W. Dijkstra...
• The use of anthropomorphic terminology when dealing with computing systems is a symptom of professional immaturity.
  -- Edsger W. Dijkstra...
• The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
  -- Edsger W. Dijkstra (1982)...
• COBOL /koh'bol/ n. [COmmon Business-Oriented Language] (Synonymous with evil.
  ) A weak, verbose, and flabby language used by card wallopers to do boring mindless things on dinosaur mainframes....
• The tools we use have a profound (and devious!) influence on our thinking habits, and, therefore, on our thinking abilities.
  -- Edsger W. Dijkstra...
• The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
  -- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5...
• APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the pa
  it creates a new generation of coding bums. -- Edsger W....