Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. – Edsger Dijkstra
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. – Edsger Dijkstra
If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. – Edsger Dijkstra
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