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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.

Edsger Dijkstra's Popular Quotes

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

- Edsger Dijkstra

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

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If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

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Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.

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The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

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Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.

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Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

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Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

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If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to star…

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