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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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The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life—seems to be involved in many,…
— William Styron
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Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come with guns to conquer…
— Thomas Sankara
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It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they…
— Criss Jami
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In passing I draw attention to another English expression which often occurs in Dutch texts: "the real world". In Dutch - and…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time
— Karl Kraus
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It often occurs to me that if, against all odds, there is a judgmental God and heaven, it will come to pass…
— E. O. Wilson
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Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it…
— Daniel Handler
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The truth is, success often occurs for reasons we don't expect, under circumstances over which we have little control and sometimes unrelated…
— Harvey Mackay
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