Quote #22 ``Pointers are like jumps, leading wildly from one part of the data structure to another.

Quote #22

``Pointers are like jumps, leading wildly from one part of the data
structure to another. Their introduction into high-level languages has been
a step backwards from which we may never recover''

-- C.A.R.Hoare ``Hints on Programming Language Design'' 1973

[This has been reprinted in several anthologies --- for example, the
Prentice-Hall collection of essays and papers by Tony Hoare]

Fascinatingly, Knuth has said in an interview that pointers are the greatest
concept of C. Which indicates that Hoare must be right.