"Programming is one of the most difficult branches……" — Edsger Dijkstra

"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."

— Edsger Dijkstra

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I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I… — Michele Bachmann
Theology is a science of mind applied to God. — Henry Ward Beecher
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to… — Pope Benedict XVI
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right… — Miguel de Cervantes
Sanely applied advertising could remake the world. — Stuart Chase
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. — Noam Chomsky
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Common sense is calculation applied to life. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Theology is only thought applied to religion. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If we don't rededicate ourselves to education with the same attitude Americans have applied to going to the moon and… — Meg Whitman
A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later. — George S. Patton
When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not… — Unknown Author

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