"Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more……" — Edsger Dijkstra
"Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons."
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73 Quotes by Edsger Dijkstra
Edsger Dijkstra has 73 quotes on this site.
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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…
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I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I…
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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…
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The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can…
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Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable…
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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…
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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…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever;…
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Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that…
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To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history,…
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There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn…
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My chosen exercise is cycling. I just love it.
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To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and…
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Why have I been chosen to deliver the message of female intelligence and its divinity to a deaf world of…
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Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them,…
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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast…
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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