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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. - Edsger Dijkstra
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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. - Edsger Dijkstra
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons. - Edsger Dijkstra
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It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. - Edsger Dijkstra
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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. - Edsger Dijkstra
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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. - Edsger Dijkstra
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Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians. - Edsger Dijkstra
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Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning. - Edsger Dijkstra
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. - Edsger Dijkstra
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The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense. - Edsger Dijkstra
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. - Edsger Dijkstra
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There should be no such thing as boring mathematics. - Edsger Dijkstra
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Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence! - Edsger Dijkstra
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Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California. - Edsger Dijkstra
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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. - Edsger Dijkstra
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Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. - Edsger Dijkstra
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