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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
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[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.

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The supreme need of the world today is for a true conception and a deeper knowledge of God. The Hindu mother tosses her baby to the crocodiles, the devout pilgrim mutilates his body, the pious monk retires to the wilderness, the martial Moslem massacres the unbelieving, the consecrated missionary lays down his life for his enemy all of these deeds are founded on varying conceptions of God.


— p.15 (Something More, A Consideration of the Vast, Undeveloped Resources of Life (1920))

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Machinery mutilates people today, even if it also feeds them.


— E. Jephcott, trans., p. 29 (Sourced)

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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

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