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
If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. – 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
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. – Edsger Dijkstra
Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind. – Calvin Coolidge