All Edsger Dijkstra Quotes
Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.
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Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
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Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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