The Tools We Use Have A Profound (and Devious!) Influence On Our Thinking Habits, And, Therefore, On Our Thinking Abilities.

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• The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
  -- Edsger W. Dijkstra (1982)...
• 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...
• Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not consciou
  it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling. -- Valdemar W. Setze...
• The use of anthropomorphic terminology when dealing with computing systems is a symptom of professional immaturity.
  -- Edsger W. Dijkstra...
• We can found no scientific discipline, nor a healthy profession on the technical mistakes of the Department of Defense and IBM.
  -- Edsger W. Dijkstra...
• 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 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
• It is through the use of logic and of precise, careful measurement that we become aware of our progress.
  Without such tools, we have no reference points to indicate how far we have advanced or retreated....