“Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.”— Edsger W. Dijkstra
“The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.”— M. H. Abrams
“A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.”— Niklaus Wirth
“What is the source of all this trouble? I'm saying that the source is basically in thought.”— David Bohm
“A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what kinds of assumptions...the practices that we accept rest.”— Michel Foucault
“People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought.”— Muhammad Iqbal