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Work Quotes by Edsger Dijkstra
- Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work…
- Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells…
- John von Neumann draws attention to what seemed to him a contrast. He remarked that for simple mechanisms, it is often easier to describe how…
- Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.
- If in physics there's something you don't understand, you can always hide behind the uncharted depths of nature. You can always blame God. You didn't…
- Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely…
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle