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Edsger Dijkstra Quotes
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- Presence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
- Mind
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The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
- Computers
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Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
- Mistake
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APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.
- Only
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Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
- Impossible
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About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
- High
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The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
- Me
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If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
- Good
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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 it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
- Humility
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- Nov 07, 2020
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
- Avoiding
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020