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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.


Edsger Dijkstra

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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 Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
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...
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EDSGER DIJKSTRA Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as ...
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EDSGER DIJKSTRA The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would r...
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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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FRED BROOKS Strong government is a prerequisite for economic development.
DONALD TSANG Living honestly is a prerequisite for a clear conscience.
ERALDO BANOVAC Faith is a necessary prerequisite for a courageous act
SUNDAY ADELAJA More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
KOFI ANNAN Speaking success into existence is the prerequisite for achieveing any goal in life.
BIANCA FRAZIER More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
KOFI ANNAN The only prerequisite is that you have respect for what these soldiers are doing.
DAVID HALL Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
JEAN ROSTAND Gymnastics is a great prerequisite to diving.
BILL LAPMAN Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
MARGUERITE GARDINER I value simplicity over everything; I always look for simplicity.
ANDERS HEJLSBERG Intuition and intelligence should always be a prerequisite for making decisions.
CASSIO DE NOVA' Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other ...
EZRA TAFT BENSON Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of fail...
BRIAN TRACY Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development; it is vital t...
AGA KHAN IV To Believers, Holiness is not a choice, it's a prerequisite.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL You can't give real responsibilities to the shady shoulders. The weak may learn, but a shady person ...
SARVESH JAIN This history sets forth the only true account of the adventures of a daring Tipperary man named Darb...
HERMINIE TEMPLETON KAVANAGH The Encyclopedia Planaria, in forty-four volumes, is not portable, and after all, what is entirely r...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Self-help is not solely the best help, but the only reliable form of help because all other kinds of...
ANUJ SOMANY Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
JOHN ORTBERG A willingness to change isn’t just important, it is a prerequisite
SUNDAY ADELAJA Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new buildi...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE There can be life after breast cancer. The prerequisite is early detection.
ANN JILLIAN The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
MAYA ANGELOU Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and ful...
JOYCE MEYER I always go for simplicity.
DAVID BAILEY There's a very narrow corridor between not enough capacity, which is bad for reliability, and too mu...
RICHARD ROSEN About every six to eight months, I run into a man who astounds me sexually, but between escapades, I...
SUE GRAFTON Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.
MARLON BRANDO A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.
DANIEL GOLEMAN A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.
EUGENE DELACROIX The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are ...
PAUL KLEE When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many pro...
ROBERT CAILLIAU Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The simplicity of my empathy is for my conscience to hurt me equally
IAN IJH HOWELL I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.
LINDA EASTMAN MCCARTNEY Simplicity is complexity resolved.
CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI The daisy's for simplicity and unaffected air.
ROBERT BURNS When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Ethics is the key which opens big doors to business success. However once it gets lost, the same acc...
PRIYAVRAT THAREJA Or, rather, you irritate everyone, Curdle. Because you're so unreliable.'
'I'm not always unrel...
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IDRIES SHAH For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one a...
NOAM CHOMSKY Bicycle means simplicity and simplicity means happiness!
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DON SCHONHARDT ...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.
JARED DIAMOND A taste for simplicity cannot last for long. -Eugene Delacroix.
EUGENE DELACROIX Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
LEONARDO DA VINCI “Simplicity is the new luxury”
JEFF KRANTZ Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE simplicity is the greatest purity
JONEL GUAZON Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective comput...
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DAVID HOWE The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
ARTHUR KOESTLER was not something that was a prerequisite to moving forward.
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THOMAS KEMPIS Sophistication is not science people, simplicity is.
ABHIJIT NASKAR From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER From native simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.
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