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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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Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain.…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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Anything which draws attention to me because I am so attractive.
— Venus Williams
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There's nothing worse than an ostentatious shot or some lighting that draws attention to itself, and you might go, 'Oh, wow, that's…
— Roger Deakins
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Art at its best draws attention not only to the way things are but also to the way things will be, when…
— N. T. Wright
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John von Neumann draws attention to what seemed to him a contrast. He remarked that for simple mechanisms, it is often easier…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and…
— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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Health education emphasizing risks is a form of pedagogy, which, like other forms, serves to legitimize ideologies and social practices. Risk discourse…
— Deborah Lupton
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Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.
— Steven Pressfield
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You can avoid the press if you really want to and I don't walk around with five security guards either because I…
— Rod Stewart
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I definitely love the smoky eye, and when I do that, I like to do a nude lip so it draws attention…
— Jessica Lowndes
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I Brought nth into this world, neither are there anything I could bring back.... Showing off draws attention.. even that is not…
— KM II
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