Edsger Dijkstra

Sort by date

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.

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Random topics and author pages

Frederick Douglass Weather Promises Tecumseh Mayhem

Madman Andrew Carnegie Examination Solidarity Gary Hamel