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Much Of The Excitement We Get Out Of Our Work Is That We Don't Really Know What We Are Doing.

Teaching Cobol Ought To Be Regarded As A Criminal Act.

Industry Suffers From The Managerial Dogma That For The Sake Of Stability And Continuity, The Company Should Be Independent Of The Competence Of Individual Employees.

I Mean, If 10 Years From Now, When You Are Doing Something Quick And Dirty, You Suddenly Visualize That I Am Looking Over Your Shoulders And Say To Yourself "dijkstra Would Not Have Liked This," Well, That Would Be Enough Immortality For Me.

I Think Of The Company Advertising "thought Processors" Or The College Pretending That Learning Basic Suffices Or At Least Helps, Whereas The Teaching Of Basic Should Be Rated As A Criminal Offence: It Mutilates The Mind Beyond Recovery.