“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
Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.#Edsger Dijkstra
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.#Edsger Dijkstra
Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys...#Edsger Dijkstra
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has...#Edsger Dijkstra
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior...#Edsger Dijkstra
