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• The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
  -- E. W. Dijkstra...
• The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
  -- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5...
• COBOL /koh'bol/ n. [COmmon Business-Oriented Language] (Synonymous with evil.
  ) A weak, verbose, and flabby language used by card wallopers to do boring mindless things on dinosaur mainframes....
• Quote #154 The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
  -- E.W.Dijkstra, 18th June 1975....
• The tools we use have a profound (and devious!) influence on our thinking habits, and, therefore, on our thinking abilities.
  -- Edsger W. Dijkstra...
• The teaching of BASIC in schools, should be considered a criminal act. -- Dijkstra
• The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly.
  I would rather use them to mimic something better. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra...