"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