« All Mind Today Quotes
·
Edsger Dijkstra's Page
Mind Today Quotes by Edsger Dijkstra
1 Mind Today quote by Edsger Dijkstra
More Quotes by Edsger Dijkstra
Edsger Dijkstra has 74 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
-
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
-
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
-
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is,…
-
I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking…
-
APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.
-
Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because…
-
The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely…
-
Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.
-
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they…
-
The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.
-
We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty,…
See all 74 quotes by Edsger Dijkstra »
More Mind Today Quotes
Popular Mind Today quotes from across the collection:
-
You will resemble, tomorrow, the DOMINATING THOUGHTS that you keep alive in your mind today!
— Napoleon Hill
-
Greet everyone you meet with a warm smile. No matter how busy you are, don't rush encounters with coworkers, family, and friends.…
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
-
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today:…
— Edsger Dijkstra
-
You determine your future by the thoughts and pictures you hold in your mind today.
— Brian Tracy
-
I'm just a step away I'm just a breath away Losin' my faith today (Fallin' off the edge today) I am just…
— Skillet
-
I'm just a step away I'm just a breath away Losin' my faith today (Fallin' off the edge today) I am just…
— Rachel
-
Your state of mind today will be your state of life tomorrow. Trust in a brighter future and it will come your…
— Kemmy Nola
-
It's just another war, Just another family torn,(Falling from my faith today),Just a step from the edge,Just another day in the world…
— Skillet
See all Mind Today Quotes »
Browse Edsger Dijkstra Quotes by Category