"Thanks to the greatly improved possibility of communication,……" — Edsger Dijkstra
"Thanks to the greatly improved possibility of communication, we overrate its importance. Even stronger, we underrate the importance of isolation."
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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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High thoughts must have high language.
— Aristophanes
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are…
— M H Abrams
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
— Malcolm Arnold
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
— Matthew Arnold
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
— Matthew Arnold
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That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world,…
— Timothy Garton Ash
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
— Isaac Asimov
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Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you…
— Margaret Atwood
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
— Gaston Bachelard
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than…
— Francis Bacon
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What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through…
— Erykah Badu
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
— Walter Bagehot
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