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The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. - Edsger Dijkstra Quotes

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

Edsger Dijkstra

Dutch Scientist

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 Quotes

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

Dutch Scientist Potential

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums. - Edsger Dijkstra Quotes

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.

Edsger Dijkstra

Dutch Scientist Future

Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for 'the average programmer', you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner. - Edsger Dijkstra Quotes

Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for 'the average programmer', you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner.

Edsger Dijkstra

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. - Edsger Dijkstra Quotes

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

Edsger Dijkstra

Astronomy Dutch Scientist

If in physics there's something you don't understand, you can always hide behind the uncharted depths of nature. You can always blame God. You didn't make it so complex yourself. But if your program doesn't work, there is no one to hide behind. You cannot hide behind an obstinate nature. If it doesn't work, you've messed up. - Edsger Dijkstra Quotes

If in physics there's something you don't understand, you can always hide behind the uncharted depths of nature. You can always blame God. You didn't make it so complex yourself. But if your program doesn't work, there is no one to hide behind. You cannot hide behind an obstinate nature. If it doesn't work, you've messed up.

Edsger 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 Dijkstra Quotes

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 Dijkstra

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

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

Edsger Dijkstra

Absence Dutch Scientist

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense. - Edsger Dijkstra Quotes

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.

Edsger Dijkstra

Dutch Scientist Mind

Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. - Edsger Dijkstra Quotes

Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.

Edsger Dijkstra

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

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

Edsger Dijkstra

Dutch Scientist

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