"Beauty is our business." — Edsger Dijkstra

"Beauty is our business."

— Edsger Dijkstra

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73 Quotes by Edsger Dijkstra

Edsger Dijkstra has 73 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…
I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I…
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…
The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can…
Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable…
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so…
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…

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More Beauty Quotes

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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