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Edsger Dijkstra
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Edsger Dijkstra

“Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.”

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“Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”

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“Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.”

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“Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.”

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“I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.”

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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.”

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Source/Notes: EWD 1213: Introducing a course on calculi
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“Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.”

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Source/Notes: "A Stupid Notation", EWD 782, 8 March 1981: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd07xx/EWD782.PDF
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“Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.”

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“Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.”

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“Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.”

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“Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.”

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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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“The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.”

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“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.”

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