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• We can found no scientific discipline, nor a healthy profession on the technical mistakes of the Department of Defense and IBM.
  -- Edsger W. Dijkstra...
• The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
  -- E. W. Dijkstra...
• 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....
• Learn what we should learn; do what we should do; be what we should be. -- Thomas S. Monso
• Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity? -- Ronald W. Reaga
• while we all know that unmastered complexity is at the root of the misery
  we do not know what degree of simplicity can be obtained, nor to what extent the intrinsic complexity of the whole design has to show up in the interfaces....
• Quote #500 `... if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as ``lines produced'' but as ``lines spent.
  '' ' -- Edsger Dijkstra...
• We can found no scientific discipline, nor a healthy profession on the technical mistakes of the Department of Defense and IBM.
  -- Edsger Dijkstra...