"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."
--Edsgar Dijkstra
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."
--Bjarne Stroustrup
"Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor."
--Wernher von Braun