Edsger Dijkstra Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Edsger Dijkstra quotes and sayings page 2 (scientist). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 26 we have.
“There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.”
“Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.”
“Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.”
“If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.”
“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.”
“The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.”
“Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.”
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