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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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Humanity has the option to become successful on our planet if we reorient world production away from weaponry - from killingry to…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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We convince by our presence.
— Walt Whitman
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Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time…
— Haruki Murakami
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There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's…
— Jodi Picoult
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I mean, we're all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out when we're still fairly…
— Jim Butcher
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We can lie to ourselves, saying we believe one thing, and sometimes we convince other's it's true, with the hope that by…
— Neal Shusterman
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We all know of people who thought they could to it (whatever “it” is) tomorrow. We have all procrastinated on such a…
— Tim Tebow
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There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
— Junius
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In life nothing is impossible...unless we convince ourselves that it is...
— Unknown Author
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There's enough people for the truth. Maybe, we convince the Volturi to listen. -Edward Cullen
— The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 2
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Maybe we accept the dream has become a nightmare. We tell ourselves that reality is better. We convince ourselves it's better that…
— Meredith Grey
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