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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....
• Projects promoting programming in "natural language" are intrinsicly doomed to fail.
  -- Edsger W. Dijkstra...
• The problems of business administration in general, and database management in particular are much to difficult for people that think in IBMese, compounded with sloppy english.
  -- Edsger W. Dijkstra...
• Quote #332 The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.
  We should be grateful for it and hope that it will remain valid in future research and that it will extend, for better or for worse, to our pleasure even though perhaps also to our bafflement, to wide branches of learning....
• Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of ones native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.
  -- Edsger W. Dijkstra...
• If the conjecture `You would rather I had not disturbed you by sending you this.
  ' is correct, you may add it to the list of uncomfortable truths. -- 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
• 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....