Lisp has jokingly been called “the most intelligent way to misuse a computer”. I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits th… - Edsger W. Dijkstra

Another two years later, in 1957, I married and Dutch marriage rites require you to state your profession and I stated that I was a programmer. But the municipal authorities of the town of Amsterdam did not accept it on the grounds that there was no such profession. And, believe it or not, but under the heading "profession" my marriage act shows the ridiculous entry "theoretical physicist"!

Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but it is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.

FORTRAN, 'the infantile disorder', by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.