Several people have told me that my inability to suffer fools gladly is one of my main weaknesses. - Edsger W. Dijkstra

In a society in which the educational system is used as an instrument for the establishment of a homogenized culture, in which the cream is prevented from rising to the top, the education of competent programmers could be politically impalatable.

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

We must not forget that it is not our [computing scientists'] business to make programs, it is our business to design classes of computations that will display a desired behaviour.