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Better Quotes by Edsger Dijkstra
- We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty, provided that we…
- Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells…
- The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something…
- We are all shaped by the tools we use, in particular: the formalisms we use shape our thinking habits, for better or for worse, and…
- Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where…
- ... as a slow-witted human being I have a very small head and I had better learn to live with it and to respect my…
- Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.
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