Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes. - Edsger Dijkstra - Quotesmemo.com

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Edsger Dijkstra

Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.

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If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

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The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

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Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

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Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?

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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. Do this, because it is the only way of discovering how that boundary should be moved forward.

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[I]n the male sexual lexicon, which is the vocabulary of power, erotica is simply high-class pornography: better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer. As with the call girl and the streetwalker, one is turned out better but both are produced by the same system of sexual values and both perform the same sexual service.

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