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• The problems of business administration in general, and database management in particular are much to difficult for people that think in IBMese, compounded with sloppy english.
  -- Edsger Dijkstra...
• The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
  -- Edsger W. Dijkstra...
• The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
  -- Edsger W. Dijkstra...
• Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematic
  he poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra...
• Software Engineering: How to program if you cannot. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
• The easiest machine applications are the technical/scientific computations. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
• Projects promoting programming in "natural language" are intrinsicly doomed to fail.
  -- Edsger W. Dijkstra...
• The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
  -- Edsger W. Dijkstra (1982)...