"It is not the task of the University……" — Edsger Dijkstra

"It is not the task of the University to offer what society asks for, but to give what society needs."

— 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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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it… — Saint Augustine
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The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience… — James A. Baldwin
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action… — James A. Baldwin
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. — Joey Adams
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity,… — Charles Baudelaire
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. — Joseph Addison
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only… — Henry Ward Beecher
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he… — Samuel Butler
Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one… — Buzz Aldrin
Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some… — Nicolas Cage

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