"If 10 years from now, when you are……" — Edsger Dijkstra
"If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me."
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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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Most men I know rely on women to do all the literal dirty work.
— Elizabeth Banks
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I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
— Brigitte Bardot
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I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day.
— Brigitte Bardot
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When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing…
— Mario Batali
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election.…
— Gael Garcia Bernal
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Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a…
— Orlando Bloom
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I see L.A. as a beautiful blonde with dirty underwear.
— David Boreanaz
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Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it…
— Joseph Brodsky
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I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads…
— Alton Brown
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It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and…
— George Burns
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I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
— Barbara Bush
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We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources…
— Buzz Aldrin
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