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Edsger Dijkstra
Age: 72 †
Born: 1930
Born: May 11
Died: 2002
Died: August 5
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We must be very careful when we give advice to younger people sometimes they follow it!
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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Experience does by no means automatically leads to wisdom and understanding.
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It is a mistake to think that programmers wares are programs. Programmers have to produce trustworthy solutions and present it in the form of cogent arguments. Programs source code is just the accompanying material to which these arguments are to be applied to.
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In their capacity as a tool, computers will be but a ripple on the surface of our culture. In their capacity as intellectual challenge, they are without precedent in the cultural history of mankind.
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The prisoner falls in love with his chains.
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We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsic limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers.
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The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better.
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Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.
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Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.
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There is very little point in trying to urge the world to mend its ways as long as that world is still convinced that its ways are perfectly adequate.
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Mentally mutilated potential programmers beyond hope of regeneration.
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The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.
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The use of anthropomorphic terminology forces you linguistically to adopt an operational view. And it makes it practically impossible to argue about programs independently of their being executed.
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There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.
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Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.
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Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence of individual employees.
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APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.
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Beauty is our business.
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The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making.
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