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Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.
— Edsger Dijkstra
It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.
— Edsger Dijkstra
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
— Edsger W. Dijkstra
Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.
— Edsger Dijkstra
The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.
— Edsger Dijkstra
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes
— Edsger W. Dijkstra
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.
— Edsger W. Dijkstra
A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second.
— Rineke Dijkstra
In the software business there are many enterprises for which it is not clear that science can help them; that science should try is not clear either.
— Edsger Dijkstra
Much of the excitement we get out of our work is that we don't really know what we are doing.
— Edsger Dijkstra
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
— Edsger Dijkstra
The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.
— Edsger Dijkstra
Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because thy require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.
— Edsger W. Dijkstra
If there is one 'scientific' discovery I am proud of, it is the discovery of the habit of writing without publication in mind.
— Edsger Dijkstra
PL/1, the fatal disease, belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.
— Edsger Dijkstra
Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.
— Edsger Dijkstra
I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, how not to make a mess of it, has not yet been met.
— Edsger Dijkstra
Too few people recognize that the high technology so celebrated today is essentially a mathematical technology.
— Edsger Dijkstra
Mentally mutilated potential programmers beyond hope of regeneration.
— Edsger Dijkstra
As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.
— Rineke Dijkstra
Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.
— Edsger Dijkstra
Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
— Edsger Dijkstra
The prisoner falls in love with his chains.
— Edsger Dijkstra
Probably I am very naive, but I also think I prefer to remain so, at least for the time being and perhaps for the rest of my life.
— Edsger Dijkstra
The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making.
— Edsger Dijkstra
Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.
— Edsger W. Dijkstra
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
— Edsger W. Dijkstra
With young people everything is much more on the surface - all the emotions; when you get older you know how to hide things.
— Rineke Dijkstra
