“It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.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
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has...#Edsger Dijkstra
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.#Edsger Dijkstra
Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the...#Edsger Dijkstra
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question...#Edsger Dijkstra
Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had...#Edsger Dijkstra
The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding...#Edsger Dijkstra
