Tag: Edsger Dijkstra

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success

Edsger Dijkstra | success

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

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science

Edsger Dijkstra | science

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

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learning

Edsger Dijkstra | learning

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

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hope

Edsger Dijkstra | hope

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.

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good

Edsger Dijkstra | good

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.

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failure

Edsger Dijkstra | failure

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

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education

Edsger Dijkstra | education

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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computers

Edsger Dijkstra | computers

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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computers

Edsger Dijkstra | computers

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

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