Logo
Quote by Edsger Dijkstra
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students

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

Other quotes by Edsger Dijkstra

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

Category:
Swimming
Author
Edsger Dijkstra
Read Quote

Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if thats what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. – Edsger Dijkstra

Category:
Education
Author
Edsger Dijkstra
Read Quote

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. – Edsger Dijkstra

Category:
Failure
Author
Edsger Dijkstra
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
good
category

Its a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise Id be a drag queen. – Dolly Parton

Category:
good

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Category:
good

Ive turned down jobs because Ive said, Honestly, I cant find my way in. I cant do it. I love you, as a director. I think the script is good. You deserve better than I think I can do. – David Duchovny

Category:
good

Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin. – Zoe Saldana

Category:
good

Random Quotes

The heart will break, but broken live on. – Lord Byron

Category:
movingon

Its like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. – E. L. Doctorow

Category:
car

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. – James Thurber

Category:
Humor

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. – Voltaire

Category:
architecture