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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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

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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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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. – Henry Ward Beecher

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The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then its a pretty good detour. – Hubert H. Humphrey

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Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth. – George Washington Carver

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Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips. – Charles Dickens

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