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Edsger Dijkstra

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ALAN KAY Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable c...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life b...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programmin...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of reward...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offens...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians ...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a s...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
EDSGER DIJKSTRA There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approache...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I pr...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in Califor...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility,...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putti...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as ...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA If in physics there's something you don't understand, you can always hide behind the uncharted depth...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would r...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.
HENRY PETROSKI Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes
EDSGER W. DIJKSTRA The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a s...
EDSGER W. DIJKSTRA Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine proble...
EDSGER W. DIJKSTRA Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it....
EDSGER W. DIJKSTRA Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
EDSGER W. DIJKSTRA The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offens...
EDSGER W. DIJKSTRA My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage...
TERRY PRATCHETT It seems like it's the classic of classics. I think we had been avoiding it for a little while.
JONAH RAPINO This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.
BRANDON SANDERSON This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, pre...
STEPHEN KING Clarity of thought is a must for brevity in speech.
SOMALI K CHAKRABARTI Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
ANTONIO PORCHIA FOUR FLOWERS The Sun Arose in Morning Glory with His Goldenrod Wanding Violet to Rose (to C and R Da...
SAIOM SHRIVER Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I wil...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men do not...
FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
JOSH BILLINGS Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
JOHN WAYNE Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Brevity is a great charm of eloquence
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condense...
ROBERT SOUTHEY Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying "I love you."
JUDITH VIORST Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words.
BIBLE, ECCLESIASTICUS Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
CICERO Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
CICERO I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.
BLAISE PASCAL In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
HORACE I eat foods such as fish, chicken, fruit and vegetables while avoiding red meat, dairy and wheat.
MARTINE MCCUTCHEON For brevity is very good, Where we are, or are not understood.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim t...
ANNIE DILLARD The lesson here is not to take Camus to the beach.
LEO X. ROBERTSON Screenwriting is made of brevity.
A.D. POSEY Now it's a matter of damage control for the union. They may be looking for a face-saving maneuver to...
JOE SCHWIETERMAN Don't aim for perfection. Aim for 'better than yesterday'.
IZEY VICTORIA ODIASE Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
DOROTHY PARKER Brevity is the soul of wit.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs...
SOCRATES The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs...
PLATO My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage...
TERRY PRATCHETT The sounding jargon of the schools.
WILLIAM COWPER Don't aim for perfect. Aim for complete. Perfection is an unattainable illusion.
LISA GENOVA Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE BISOW........ (Brevity is the soul of Wit)
ANKALA V SUBBARAO Young adults can learn a valuable financial lesson planning for prom expenses. With a budget, they c...
DEBRA PANKOW Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on
HORACE Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction
HOSEA BALLOU Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis.

(Whatever advice you give, be brief.)
HORACE The definition of Brevity: That which people believe would be a virtue - in me!
GREG CURTIS Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's interna...
KEVIN MITNICK Knowledge is beneficial for avoiding and resolving disputes.
ERALDO BANOVAC Brevity is the body and soul of wit.
JEAN PAUL Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
HOSEA BALLOU If human lives be,
for their very brevity, sweet,
then beast lives are sweeter still...
ISOBELLE CARMODY Aim not for the target.
Aim to hit the target.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN The ultimate aim is reverence for the universe.
The ultimate aim is love for life.
The u...
HELENE CARDONA A true intellect is one who has the credentials but keeps his knowledge to his humble self while avo...
THEODORE WALTER FEDORCHAK Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
KINGMAN BREWSTER, JR. Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
KINGMAN BREWSTER, JR. Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
KINGMAN BREWSTER Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
SIR ARTHUR HELPS Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought
ARTHUR HELPS Brevity in quotes is their virtue, verbosity their vice.
DAVID L. HATTON To write good poems is the secret of brevity.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
PAUL TILLICH Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being
PAUL TILLICH

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EDSGER W. DIJKSTRA Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine proble...
EDSGER W. DIJKSTRA Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it....
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EDSGER W. DIJKSTRA The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offens...
EDSGER W. DIJKSTRA The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a s...
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