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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.
edsger w. dijkstra— Dijkstra (1984) Source: The threats to computing science (EWD898)
[The cat] and I have an agreement: I leave her alone and don't make sudden moves when I wake up to find her perched on my chest, staring with an unblinking hostile gaze at my face and in return she rarely mutilates me.
james nicoll— Usenet article (2005)
Machinery mutilates people today, even if it also feeds them.
— E. Jephcott, trans., p. 29 (Sourced)
The teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery.
— Edsger W. Dijkstra, "The Threats to Computing Science", ACM 1984 South Central Regional Conference, November 16–18, Austin, Texas. EWD898
