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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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In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple…
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Please don't fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmatical about [the goto statement]. I have the uncomfortable feeling…
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There's something to be said for going back to a simple form of living-nature and family. There's something very...there's safety in that.
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God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers.
— Leopold Kronecker
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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific,…
— J. P. Morgan
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Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.
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It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound; and that supremely real and rational…
— Carl Jung
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History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and…
— Johan Huizinga
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Rather than studying the most complex form of memory in a very complicated animal, we had to take the most simple form…
— Eric Kandel
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