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Write a paper promising salvat...

Write a paper promising salvation, make it a structured something or a virtual something, or abstract, distributed or higher-order or applicative and you can almost be certain of having started a new cult.

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I don't need to waste my time ...

I don't need to waste my time with a computer just because I am a computer scientist.

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Don't blame me for the fact th...

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 Wybe Dijkstra 120 quotes

How do we convince people that...

How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?

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Testing shows the presence, no...

Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.

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If in physics there's somethin...

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.

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Raise your quality standards a...

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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Some consider the puzzles that...

Some consider the puzzles that are created by their omissions as spicy challenges, without which their texts would be boring; others shun clarity lest their work is considered trivial.

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If there is one 'scientific' d...

If there is one 'scientific' discovery I am proud of, it is the discovery of the habit of writing without publication in mind.

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Teaching COBOL ought to be reg...

Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.

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It used to be the program's pu...

It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.

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Aim for brevity while avoiding...

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

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The effective exploitation of ...

The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.

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In passing I draw attention to...

In passing I draw attention to another English expression which often occurs in Dutch texts: 'the real world'. In Dutch - and I am afraid not in Dutch alone - its usage is almost always a symptom of a violent anti-intellectualism.

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Why has elegance found so litt...

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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There should be no such thing ...

There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.

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The use of COBOL cripples the ...

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.

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The traditional mathematician ...

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.

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The students that, like the wi...

The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life', expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.

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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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