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.
More quotes and aphorisms
The limits of my language means the limits of my world...I think snowboarders have a unique experience...Solitude is the place of purification...Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism...God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say...We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't...