FastSaying

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


Edsger Dijkstra

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offens...
EDSGER W. DIJKSTRA The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offen...
E. W. DIJKSTRA FORTRAN --'the infantile disorder'--, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whate...
EDSGAR W. DIJKSTRA I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in compute...
ALAN KAY Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.
GENE TUNNEY Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possib...
ERNST MACH That should be regarded as a loss, which is won at the expense of our reputation.
UNKNOWN Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of ...
JIMMY CARTER It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as e...
MARGARET MEAD It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as e...
MARGARET MEAD Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable c...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life b...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programmin...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of reward...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians ...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a s...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
EDSGER DIJKSTRA There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approache...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I pr...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in Califor...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility,...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putti...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as ...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA If in physics there's something you don't understand, you can always hide behind the uncharted depth...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would r...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.
RUSSELL M. NELSON Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its...
MARK TWAIN A well constructed plot should, therefore, be single in its issue, rather than double as some mainta...
ARISTOTLE It should be used immediately in the Horn of Africa to stop outbreaks there and the advisory committ...
STEVE COCHI It really should be a criminal offense for an electrician to mount a breaker box on a bedroom wall. ...
STEVEN MAGEE Lockheed now has an additional $1.7 billion of cash to deploy, and its use of it should be a key to ...
JOSEPH NADOL Cell-phone use contributes to driver inattention, which is a major cause of accidents. Therefore, we...
MARTIN GLEESON Be nobel. Be the light as if you are the source of life.
DEBASISH MRIDHA A great future starts with what you can see
SOTONYE ANGA If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.
G. K. CHESTERTON Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy pettin...
FRAN LEBOWITZ Happiness is a spiritual dimension; therefore its source should also be spiritual, not material.
SUNDAY ADELAJA A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individ...
MILAN KUNDERA The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as wel...
JOHN BARDEEN Death Penalty' in rarest of rare cases, should adorn criminal justice system in India,which would op...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN -SENIOR LEGAL CONSULTANT & AUTHOR IN LAW. (B.COM,LLB-GOLDMEDALIST, LLM-GOLDM Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els...
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chan...
ANAIS NIN If the primary cause of rising interest rates is growing demand for capital, then this should be reg...
KATHY MATSUI Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in it...
MARK TWAIN She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY These findings should be regarded as a warning: If you have Alzheimer's in the family, you have to t...
THOMAS PERLS We incline, therefore, to think the parishes should be equal or near, because in the reformed religi...
WILLIAM PETTY Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things o...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER Most people imagine that the explosion in the U.S. prison population during the past twenty-five yea...
MICHELLE ALEXANDER I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inv...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER We teach the vocabulary that teachers are teaching in the classroom to ELL students a few weeks ahea...
BECKY SUKANEN To use [Monument Hill] as a surface parking lot is criminal.
TOM ARMSTRONG Put your mind to it and you will do it. This is how the impossible become possible
SOTONYE ANGA As are your thoughts so will be your actions. One should therefore refrain from listening to anythin...
SAM VEDA A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should ...
VINCE FLYNN The preacher should work to convert his congregation; the wife should work to save her unbelieving h...
J.I. PACKER She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.
E.M. FORSTER To attempt suicide is a criminal offense. Any man who, of his own will, tries to escape the treadmil...
ALEXANDER CHASE Our view is that defamation should never be a criminal offense. It's not a crime. If in the exercise...
JOEL SIMON The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The teaching of Jesus Christ has as its central theme unfoldment towards a realization of immortalit...
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN It is an old and cherished tradition of our country that everyone should be free to go about their b...
LORD BINGHAM Therefore, other branches of the same case were separated into individual criminal proceedings.
VLADIMIR USTINOV The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life...
LEO TOLSTOY Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.
ERMA BOMBECK

More Edsger Dijkstra

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable c...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life b...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programmin...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of reward...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians ...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a s...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
EDSGER DIJKSTRA There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approache...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I pr...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in Califor...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility,...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putti...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as ...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA If in physics there's something you don't understand, you can always hide behind the uncharted depth...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would r...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes
EDSGER W. DIJKSTRA The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a s...
EDSGER W. DIJKSTRA Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine proble...
EDSGER W. DIJKSTRA Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it....
EDSGER W. DIJKSTRA Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
EDSGER W. DIJKSTRA The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offens...
EDSGER W. DIJKSTRA The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a s...
E. W. DIJKSTRA Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. DIJKSTRA Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
EDSGAR W. DIJKSTRA About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain...
EDSGAR W. DIJKSTRA FORTRAN --'the infantile disorder'--, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whate...
EDSGAR W. DIJKSTRA The tools we use have a profound (and devious!) influence on our thinking habits, and, therefore, on...
EDSGAR W. DIJKSTRA The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and ...
E. W. DIJKSTRA The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offen...
E. W. DIJKSTRA It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposur...
E. W. DIJKSTRA