About This Quote
In this quote, Eric Van Den Broek is making a joke about computer scientist Edsger W. Dijkstra. He is saying that Dijkstra was so arrogant in his research that he was the most arrogant computer scientist ever. However, Dijkstra was not a computer scientist who worked on computers, but a mathematician who worked on algorithms.
In other words, he studied different things that computers did. The term "nano-Dijkstra" refers to a bitter nano-degrees of separation from being the most arrogant computer scientist ever.
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