The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence! - Edsger Dijkstra
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
- Edsger Dijkstra
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. - Edsger Dijkstra
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act. - Edsger Dijkstra
Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. - Edsger Dijkstra
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California. - Edsger Dijkstra
Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.
Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated. - Edsger Dijkstra
Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.
Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning. - Edsger Dijkstra
Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.
The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise. - Edsger Dijkstra
The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.
If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to star… - Edsger Dijkstra
If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to star…
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