"There should be no such thing as boring…" — Edsger Dijkstra

"There should be no such thing as boring mathematics."

— 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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The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?' — Margaret Atwood
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive. — Paul Auster
There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy… — Sebastian Bach
I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but… — Tom Baker
I have a fear of being boring. — Christian Bale
Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it's true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you… — Christian Bale
Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on… — Alan Ball
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything… — J. G. Ballard
I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring. — Javier Bardem
Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting. — Dave Barry
Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down. — Dave Barry

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