"The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance……" — Edsger Dijkstra
"The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics."
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73 Quotes by Edsger Dijkstra
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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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