http://lwn.net/Articles/6954/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "Edsger Dijkstra". hourly 2 http://lwn.net/Articles/6992/rss 2002-08-07T21:18:10+00:00 nas "The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague" (from 1972 Turing Award Lecture) <p> "Program testing can best show the presence of errors but never their absence" <p> "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." <p> "If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, you'd better not start writing it." <p> "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence." <p> "The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay."