Abstraction 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 competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids…

— Edsger Dijkstra

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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Naval Ravikant

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

With software products, it is usual to find that the software has major 'bugs' and does not work reliably for some users... The lay…

— David Parnas

My message to the serious programmer is this: spend a part of your working day examining and refining your own methods. Even though programmers…

— Robert W. Floyd

The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something…

— Donald Knuth

It is a mistake to think that programmers wares are programs. Programmers have to produce trustworthy solutions and present it in the form of…

— Edsger Dijkstra

When we take the position that it is not only the programmer's responsibility to produce a correct program but also to demonstrate its correctness…

— Edsger Dijkstra

We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty, provided that…

— Edsger Dijkstra