Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
From Edsger Dijkstra
Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.
APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.
Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.
The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.
Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life', expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
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