The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.
Edsger DijkstraAre you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger DijkstraTeaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.
Edsger Dijkstra