When we had no computers, we had no programming problem either. When we had a few computers, we … - Edsger Dijkstra

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When a man paints a naked woman he gives her less than poor Nature did. I can conceive of few circumstances wherein I would have to paint a woman naked, but if I did I would not mutilate her for double the money. She is the most beautiful thing there is except a naked man, but I never saw a study of one exhibited.

Edsger Dijkstra

When we had no computers, we had no programming problem either. When we had a few computers, we had a mild programming problem. Confronted with machines a million times as powerful, we are faced with a gigantic programming problem.

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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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