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![Please don’t fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmatical about [the goto statement]. I have the uncomfortable feeling that others are making a religion out of it, as if the conceptual problems of programming could be solved by a single trick, by a simple form of coding discipline! Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/778/777184/777184.webp "Please don’t fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmatical about [the goto statement]. I have the uncomfortable feeling that others are making a religion out of it, as if the conceptual problems of programming could be solved by a single trick, by a simple form of coding discipline! Picture Quote #1")
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Programming in Basic causes brain damage (Edsger Dijkstra Quotes)
APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection (Edsger Dijkstra Quotes)
Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon (Edsger Dijkstra Quotes)
The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world’s richest source of rewarding challenges (Edsger Dijkstra Quotes)
In the good old days physicists repeated each other’s experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other’s programs, bugs included (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 Quotes)
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense (Edsger Dijkstra Quotes)
It is not the task of the University to offer what society asks for, but to give what society needs (Edsger Dijkstra Quotes)
Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells bette (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 Quotes)
Production speed is severely slowed down if one works with half-time people who have other obligations as well. This is at least a factor of four; probably it is worse (Edsger Dijkstra Quotes)
Much of the excitement we get out of our work is that we don’t really know what we are doing (Edsger Dijkstra Quotes)
Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes (Edsger Dijkstra Quotes)
Too few people recognize that the high technology so celebrated today is essentially a mathematical technology (Edsger Dijkstra Quotes)
Experience does by no means automatically leads to wisdom and understanding (Edsger Dijkstra Quotes)
The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer (Edsger Dijkstra Quotes)
I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection (Edsger Dijkstra Quotes)
John von Neumann draws attention to what seemed to him a contrast. He remarked that for simple mechanisms, it is often easier to describe how they work than what they do, while for more complicated mechanisms, it is usually the other way around (Edsger Dijkstra Quotes)
Please don’t fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmatical about [the goto statement]. I have the uncomfortable feeling that others are making a religion out of it, as if the conceptual problems of programming could be solved by a single trick, by a simple form of coding discipline! (Edsger Dijkstra Quotes)
... as a slow-witted human being I have a very small head and I had better learn to live with it and to respect my limitations and give them full credit, rather than to try to ignore them, for the latter vain effort will be punished by failure (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 Quotes)
The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don’t master them, the software crisis will remain with us and will be considered an incurable disease. And you know what incurable diseases do: they invite the quacks and charlatans in, who in this case take the form of Software Engineering gurus (Edsger Dijkstra Quotes)
Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better (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 Quotes)
It used to be the program’s purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer’s purpose to execute our programs. (Edsger Dijkstra Quotes)
I now have had my foggy crystal ball for quite a long time. Its predictions are invariably gloomy and usually correct, but I am quite used to that and they won’t keep me from giving you a few suggestions, even if it is merely an exercise in futility whose only effect is to make you feel guilty. (Edsger Dijkstra Quotes)
In their capacity as a tool, computers will be but a ripple on the surface of our culture. In their capacity as intellectual challenge, they are without precedent in the cultural history of mankind. (Edsger Dijkstra Quotes)
In the good old days physicists repeated each other’s experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other’s programs, bugs included. (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 Quotes)
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes (Edsger Dijkstra Quotes)