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  1. Funny, Debugging, Bugs. 109 Copy quote. Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California. Edsger Dijkstra. Learning, California, Ideas. 24 Copy quote. Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. Edsger Dijkstra. Inspirational, Inspiring, Simplicity.

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    • “Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.”
    • “The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.” ― Edsger W. Dijkstra.
    • “Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely as possible at the boundary of your abilities.
    • “Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.” ― Edsger W. Dijkstra.
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    For a number of years I have been familiar with the observation that the quality of programmers is a decreasing function of the density of go to statements in the programs they produce. More recent...

    A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box.

    Thank goodness we don't have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well.
    [Though computer science is a fairly new discipline, it is predominantly based on the Cartesian world view. As Edsgar W. Dijkstra has pointed out] A scientific discipline emerges with the - usually...
    How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity —in short: what mathematicians call "elegance"— are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success...
    I think of the company advertising "Thought Processors" or the college pretending that learning BASIC suffices or at least helps, whereas the teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence...
    The question of whether Machines Can Think... is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim.
    Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.

    When I came back from Munich, it was September, and I was Professor of Mathematics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Later I learned that I had been the Department's third choice, after tw...

    The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don't master them, the software crisis will remain with us and will be considered...

    In short, I suggest that the programmer should continue to understand what he is doing, that his growing product remains firmly within his intellectual grip. It is my sad experience that this sugge...
    This is generally true: any sizeable piece of program, or even a complete program package, is only a useful tool that can be used in a reliable fashion, provided that the documentation pertinent fo...
  2. Aug 6, 2002 · Edsger W. Dijkstra. The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity, of mastering multitude and avoiding its bastard chaos as effectively as possible. Edsger W. Dijkstra. The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer. Edsger W. Dijkstra.

  3. Nov 9, 2023 · Quotes Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930 – 2002). Dutch computer scientist, and winner of the 1972 Turing Award. Quotes #1

  4. Science Quotes by Edsger W. Dijkstra (32 quotes) ~~[Unverified]~~ Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.

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  6. Congratulations, Luxury, Elegance. 39 Copy quote. When building sand castles on the beach, we can ignore the waves but should watch the tide. Edsger Dijkstra. Beach, Castles, Watches. 12 Copy quote. The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making. Edsger Dijkstra.

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