Cases Quote by Edsger Dijkstra

Programming is a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy…

— Damian Conway

One principle problem of educating software engineers is that they will not use a new method until they believe it works and, more importantly,…

— Watts Humphrey

“nobody seemed to think programming is a solved problem: most are still looking for a better way to write software, whether by finding ways…

— Peter Seibel

People imagine that programming is logical, a process like fixing a clock. Nothing could be further from the truth.

— Ellen Ullman

When we had no computers, we had no programming problem either. When we had a few computers, we had a mild programming problem. Confronted…

— Edsger Dijkstra

I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll…

— Malcolm X

“Some automatic responses are good — they're skills, and we need them for life and labor. But the tendency to accumulate programming tends to…

— John Shirley

Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.

— Niklaus Wirth

In the past, much power and responsibility over life and death was concentrated in the hands of doctors. Now, this ethical burden is increasingly…

— Oren Etzioni

Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for the average…

— Edsger Dijkstra

The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.

— Larry Wall

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

— Donald Knuth