The Use Of Cobol Cripples The Mind;

About The Use Of Language: It Is Impossible To Sharpen A Pencil With A Blunt Axe. It Is Equally Vain To Try To Do It With Ten Blunt Axes Instead.

... As A Slow-witted Human Being I Have A Very Small Head And I Had Better Learn To Live With It And To Respect My Limitations And Give Them Full Credit, Rather Than To Try To Ignore Them, For The Latter Vain Effort Will Be Punished By Failure.

The Effective Exploitation Of His Powers Of Abstraction Must Be Regarded As One Of The Most Vital Activities Of A Competent Programmer.

It Is Not The Task Of The University To Offer What Society Asks For, But To Give What Society Needs.

When We Take The Position That It Is Not Only The Programmer's Responsibility To Produce A Correct Program But Also To Demonstrate Its Correctness In A Convincing Manner, Then The Above Remarks Have A Profound Influence On The Programmer's Activity: The Object He Has To Produce Must Be Usefully Structured.