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If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming mus

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. – Edsger Dijkstra

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Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if thats what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. – Edsger Dijkstra

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Education
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. – Edsger Dijkstra

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Failure
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The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. – Edsger Dijkstra

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Swimming
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Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. – Brian Kernighan

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When a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in simple English, it will be discovered that programmers cannot speak English. – Author Unknown

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At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly equivalent to herding cats. – The Washington Post Magazine, 9 June 1985

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A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. – Doug Linder

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The light of her earthly existence is now extinguished forever. – Elizabeth J. Eames, “An Autumn Reverie,” October 1840

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