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

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

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves. – Lao Tzu

Category:
good

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger. – Hubert H. Humphrey

Category:
good

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good ones sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, ones character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. – William James

Category:
good

Theyre only truly great who are truly good. – George Chapman

Category:
good

Random Quotes

A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the I in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear. – Edmond Rostand

Category:
Love :: Kisses

Fire is the best of servants; but what a master! – Thomas Carlyle

Category:
Firefighters

Romance is dead — it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. – Lisa Simpson, The Simpsons

Category:
Love

Life without a friend is death without a witness. – Proverb

Category:
Solitude