I searched for the "famous paper" in question and could not find it - can you point us to a link?
So far I find two of Dijkstra's talks/writing on anthropomorphism
[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD05xx/E...
[2] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD09xx/E...