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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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Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally…
— Walter J. Ong
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This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at…
— Martin Chemnitz
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A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.
— Alberto Manguel
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There is a big difference between wanting to say you wrote a book, and actually writing one. Many people think they want…
— Scott Berkun
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Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small…
— Ha Jin
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For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.
— Pablo Neruda
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I've always said "Writer's Block" is a myth. There is no such thing as writer's block, only writers trying to force something…
— Julie Ann Dawson
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In this respect a program is like a poem: you cannot write a poem without writing it. Yet people talk about programming…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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There may be 300,000 apps for the iPhone and iPad, but the only app you really need is the browser. You don't…
— Jim Balsillie
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I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that…
— Farley Mowat
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Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
— Hermann Hesse
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I don't exist without writing.
— Jewel
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