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Several people have told me th...

Several people have told me that my inability to suffer fools gladly is one of my main weaknesses.

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra 120 quotes

Computer science has as much t...

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

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra 120 quotes

Besides a mathematical inclina...

Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra 120 quotes

Much of the excitement we get ...

Much of the excitement we get out of our work is that we don't really know what we are doing.

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra 120 quotes

Production speed is severely s...

Production speed is severely slowed down if one works with half-time people who have other obligations as well. This is at least a factor of four; probably it is worse.

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra 120 quotes

When building sand castles on ...

When building sand castles on the beach, we can ignore the waves but should watch the tide.

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra 120 quotes

The required techniques of eff...

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 an incurable disease. And you know what incurable diseases do: they invite the quacks and charlatans in, who in this case take the form of Software Engineering gurus.

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra 120 quotes

In the wake of the Cultural Re...

In the wake of the Cultural Revolution and now of the recession I observe a mounting pressure to co-operate and to promote 'teamwork'. For its anti-individualistic streak, such a drive is of course highly suspect; some people may not be so sensitive to it, but having seen the Hitlerjugend in action suffices for the rest of your life to be very wary of 'team spirit'. Very.

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra 120 quotes

When I came back from Munich, ...

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 two numerical analysts had turned the invitation down; the decision to invite me had not been an easy one, on the one hand because I had not really studied mathematics, and on the other hand because of my sandals, my beard and my 'arrogance' (whatever that may be).

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra 120 quotes

The problems of the real world...

The problems of the real world are primarily those you are left with when you refuse to apply their effective solutions.

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra 120 quotes

When we had no computers, we h...

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.

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra 120 quotes

Probably I am very naive, but ...

Probably I am very naive, but I also think I prefer to remain so, at least for the time being and perhaps for the rest of my life.

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I think of the company adverti...

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: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery.

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra 120 quotes

[Though computer science is a ...

[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 rather slow! - discovery of which aspects can be meaningfully 'studied in isolation for the sake of their own consistency.

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra 120 quotes

Thank goodness we don't have o...

Thank goodness we don't have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well.

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra 120 quotes

Perfecting oneself is as much ...

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra 120 quotes

I mean, if 10 years from now, ...

I mean, 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.

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The lurking suspicion that som...

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

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There should be no such thing ...

There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra 120 quotes

We must be very careful when w...

We must be very careful when we give advice to younger people: sometimes they follow it!

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra 120 quotes

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