Quote by Edsger Dijkstra
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interestin

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

Other quotes by 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

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Education
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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. – Edsger Dijkstra

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good
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If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you. – Bruce Lee

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What goes around comes around, just like a flip turn. – Author Unknown

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Swimming

Chlorine is my perfume. – Author Unknown

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Swimming

If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too? – Steven Wright

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So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby. – Rick Baker

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American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success. – Rand Paul

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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Im torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble – myself included – as fathers get older. – Eric McCormack

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parenting