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• Quote #668 Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.
  -- E. 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
• Quote #639 Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.
  -- Edsger Dijkstra...
• 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....
• GOTO statement considered harmful" The unrestricted use of a GOTO statement is considered to be harmful because it hampers program understandability.
  Consequently, a programmer should justify every use of a GOTO statement....
• Projects promoting programming in "natural language" are intrinsicly doomed to fail.
  -- Edsger W. 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...