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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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Dutch Scientist    Potential   

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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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"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." — Edsger W. 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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Dutch Scientist    Future   

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"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." — 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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Dutch Scientist    Mind   

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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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"Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons." — Edsger W. 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 W. Dijkstra
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"Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon." — Edsger W. Dijkstra
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"Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure." — Edsger W. Dijkstra
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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." — Edsger W. Dijkstra
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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." — Edsger W. Dijkstra
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"Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for 'the average programmer', you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner." — Edsger Dijkstra
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"If in physics there's something you don't understand, you can always hide behind the uncharted depths of nature. You can always blame God. You didn't make it so complex yourself. But if your program doesn't work, there is no one to hide behind. You cannot hide behind an obstinate nature. If it doesn't work, you've messed up." — Edsger Dijkstra
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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." — 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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"Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code." — Edsger Dijkstra
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"The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim." — Edsger W. Dijkstra
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"Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change." — Edsger W. Dijkstra
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"Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning." — Edsger W. Dijkstra
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