“[...] that what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names - otherwise you would be selling nothing - like Structured Analysis and Design, Software Engineering, Maturity Models, Management Information Systems, Integrated Project Support Environments, Object Orientation and Business Process Re-engineering (the latter three being known as IPSE, OO and BPR, respectively).”

– Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930-2002), niederländischer Informatiker in The strengths of the academic enterprise

“Es ist praktisch unmöglich, einem Studenten gutes Programmieren beizubringen, wenn er vorher in BASIC programmiert hat. Als potenzielle Programmierer sind sie geistig verstümmelt ohne Hoffnung auf Erholung.”

– Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930-2002), niederländischer Informatiker