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

Edsger Dijkstra
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More Quotes By Edsger Dijkstra
  1. It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

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

  3. Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

  4. The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

  5. Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

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