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Software Design Quotes by Edsger Dijkstra
- Please don't fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmatical about [the goto statement]. I have the uncomfortable feeling that others are…
- ... as a slow-witted human being I have a very small head and I had better learn to live with it and to respect my…
- Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.
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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… — Edsger Dijkstra
- The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation. — Donald Knuth
- ... the designer of a new system must not only be the implementor and the first large-scale user; the designer should also… — Donald Knuth
- I think psychoanalyze-pinhead is the important lesson of GNU Emacs. — Unknown Author
- The real tight interface is between the book and the reader-the world of the book is plugged right into your brain, never… — Bill McKibben
- When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically. — Ron Jeffries
- Learning research tells us that the time lag from experiment to feedback is critical ... — Kent Beck
- We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or… — Donald Fagen
- Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle… — Edmund Burke