"If in physics there's something you don't understand,……" — Edsger Dijkstra
"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 make it so complex yourself. But if your program doesn't work, there is no one to hide behind. You cannot hide behind an obstinate nature. If it doesn't work, you've messed up."
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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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If we divide into two camps--even into violent and the nonviolent--and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the…
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Always blame conditions, not men
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Confronted with economic problems, politicians always blame the private sector first ... [even] blaming the problem on the solution.
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Weak people never admit that they are responsible for their own state. They always blame either circumstances or others.
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When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet…
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They always blame America first!
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Of course, I'm not often the top dog, but sometimes it's better not to be top dog, because you last…
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People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys…
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People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.
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Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we…
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If I stunk for some reason, you can always blame it on the character.
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Sometime people Intention and Action really don't match and always blame others.
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