« All Whistles Quotes
·
Edsger Dijkstra's Page
Whistles Quotes by Edsger Dijkstra
1 Whistles quote by Edsger Dijkstra
More Quotes by Edsger Dijkstra
Edsger Dijkstra has 74 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
-
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
-
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
-
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is,…
-
I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking…
-
APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.
-
Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because…
-
The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely…
-
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…
-
The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.
-
We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty,…
See all 74 quotes by Edsger Dijkstra »
More Whistles Quotes
Popular Whistles quotes from across the collection:
-
A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.
— Robert Baden-Powell
-
You just witnessed something I've never seen in my entire life. They just called that team (Tennessee) the winner. They said whoa,…
— Les Miles
-
I didn't pay much attention to the whistles and whoops, in fact, I didn't quite hear them. I was full of a…
— Marilyn Monroe
-
Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can…
— Taylor Momsen
-
In just - Spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee
— E E Cummings
-
We found a water pipe, tied the flag to it and put it up. Then all hell broke loose below. Troops cheered,…
— Charles Lindbergh
-
If people want bells and whistles and all of that, there are bells and whistles available. If they don't want bells and…
— Jim Lehrer
-
If a man whistles at you, don't turn around. You are a lady not a dog.
— Niall Horan
-
The Apple has the fewest bells and whistles. It has simple sound and few graphics special effects. In a way, that is…
— Bill Budge
-
On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story…
— Dorothy Parker
-
Our show doesn't rely on the typical whistles and bells, and smoke and mirrors. It relies mostly on the music.
— Juice Newton
-
It thunders, howls, roars, hisses, whistles, blusters, hums, growls, rumbles, squeaks, groans, sings, crackles, cracks, rattles, flickers, clicks, snarls, tumbles, whimpers, whines,…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
See all Whistles Quotes »
Browse Edsger Dijkstra Quotes by Category