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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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How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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I give my grandfather, Dr Harold Young, a forestry Professor at the University of Maine, full credit for my career path. He…
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