Edsger Dijkstra Programming Quotations

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.

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.

The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity.

Beauty is our business.