Quote by E. W. Dijkstra (1930-2002)

• The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

• The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offense.

• The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker, and Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim.

• Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.