Words are only and eye-twitch away from the things they stand for.

He also said that this was not just a human gift, that everything on the face of the earth had a soul, whether mineral, vegetable, or animal - or even just a simple thought.

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

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.

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Edsger Dijkstra

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Written By Edsger Dijkstra

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Written By Edsger Dijkstra

Written By Edsger Dijkstra

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