

“The computing scientist’s main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making.”
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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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“Your obligation is that of active participation. You should not act as knowledge-absorbing sponges, but as whetstones on which we can all sharpen our wits”
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“It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.”
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