C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“Cobol, for all its sometime popularity, does not seem to have any intellectual descendants. It is an evolutionary dead- end a Neanderthal language.”

— Paul Graham

COBOL unlike other languages is the most modern, because… it has a lot of PICTURES!

— Lkk

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.

— Edsger Dijkstra

COBOL programmers understand why women hate periods.

— Anonymous

Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Real programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.

— Tom Van Vleck

“Moira nodded vigorously. She didn't know what BASIC or COBOL were, except that Wiz said they caused brain damage in those who used them.”

— Rick Cook

There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.

— Anonymous

Have the courage to go against the tide of current values that do not conform to the path of Jesus.

— Pope Francis

I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This…

— Katrina Kenison

The young man [Turgot] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new thought; his…

— Andrew Dickson White

If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns.

— Frederick Lenz

I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.

— Nadine Gordimer

In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political.

— Cate Blanchett