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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

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

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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

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