Edsger Dijkstra Quotes About Technology
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The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
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The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.
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Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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When I came back from Munich, it was September, and I was Professor of Mathematics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Later I learned that I had been the Department's third choice, after two numerical analysts had turned the invitation down; the decision to invite me had not been an easy one, on the one hand because I had not really studied mathematics, and on the other hand because of my sandals, my beard and my "arrogance" (whatever that may be).
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Too few people recognize that the high technology so celebrated today is essentially a mathematical technology.
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