“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.Quote by Edsger DijkstraTopics: Quotes about Edsger DijkstraShare on:FacebookPinterestWhatsApp
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior...#Edsger Dijkstra
The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.#Edsger Dijkstra
The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus...#Edsger Dijkstra
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question...#Edsger Dijkstra
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has...#Edsger Dijkstra
Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.#Edsger Dijkstra
