Don’t compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons. Edsger Dijkstra Read Quote
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. Edsger Dijkstra Read Quote
I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection. Edsger Dijkstra Read Quote
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. Edsger Dijkstra Read Quote
APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums. Edsger Dijkstra Read Quote
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. Edsger Dijkstra Read Quote
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. Edsger Dijkstra Read Quote
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense. Edsger Dijkstra Read Quote
