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Edsger Dijkstra has 74 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
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Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is,…
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I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking…
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APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.
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Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because…
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The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely…
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Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.
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In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they…
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The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.
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We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty,…
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If we divide into two camps--even into violent and the nonviolent--and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will…
— Ayya Khema
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Always blame conditions, not men
— Frank Norris
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Confronted with economic problems, politicians always blame the private sector first ... [even] blaming the problem on the solution.
— Unknown Author
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Weak people never admit that they are responsible for their own state. They always blame either circumstances or others.
— Amish Tripathi
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If in physics there's something you don't understand, you can always hide behind the uncharted depths of nature. You can always blame…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they…
— Jeane Kirkpatrick
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They always blame America first!
— Jeane Kirkpatrick
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Of course, I'm not often the top dog, but sometimes it's better not to be top dog, because you last longer. If…
— Charles Durning
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People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage…
— Anna Quindlen
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People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.
— Russell Simmons
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Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all…
— Paulo Coelho
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If I stunk for some reason, you can always blame it on the character.
— Danny Aiello
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