Clever Quote by Edsger Dijkstra

The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility,…

— Edsger Dijkstra

The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Any competent programmer has an API to cash, payments, escrow, wills, notaries, lotteries, dividends, micropayments, subscriptions, crowdfunding, and more.

— Naval Ravikant

Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.

— Anonymous

Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a…

— John Carmack

Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for the average…

— Edsger Dijkstra

We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible about time,…

— John Taylor Gatto

I have so many positive points. I am not corrupt, I am competent.

— Tamilisai Soundararajan

I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very…

— Lamar Alexander

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these…

— Bill Wyman

There's always, I guess, a philosophy that if you come in, you want to change all the parts, you want to change everything over.…

— Pat Gillick

While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision.

— Chuck Close