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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 one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's…
— Margaret Atwood
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
— Abu Bakr
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
— Daniel Berrigan
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A clever general... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return.…
— Sun Tzu
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Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at any rate…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands, so an…
— Sun Tzu
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The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the game of…
— H. L. Mencken
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Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.
— Albert Einstein
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Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.
— Theodore Parker
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Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained.
— Arthur Cayley
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For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
— Horace
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