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Inspirational Quotes by Edsger Dijkstra
- The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.
- Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.
- There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.
- Experience does by no means automatically leads to wisdom and understanding.
- Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
- Beauty is our business.
- The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.
- Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
- The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
- Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.
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