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Program Quotes by Edsger Dijkstra
- 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 can share each…
- ...our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. For…
- Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where…
- If in physics there's something you don't understand, you can always hide behind the uncharted depths of nature. You can always blame God. You didn't…
- In this respect a program is like a poem: you cannot write a poem without writing it. Yet people talk about programming as if it…
- Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
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