FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate — Edsger Dijkstra
Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes. — Edsger Dijkstra
I don’t need to waste my time with a computer just because I am a computer scientist. — Edsger Dijkstra
A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism — Edsger Dijkstra