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

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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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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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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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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. – Woodrow T. Wilson

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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. – Russian Proverb

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Fish, to taste good, must swim three times: in water, in butter, and in wine. – Proverb

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A half truth is a whole lie. – Yiddish Proverb

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Art is the triumph over chaos. – John Cheever

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Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad. – Proverb

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To draw it to a fine point, as was done under the Empire… is to give the face of the wearer a factitious and evanescent expression, since the points cannot be kept stiff without the use of a cosmetic, easily detected and soon melted. – Charles Blanc, Art in Ornament and Dress, 1875

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