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Quote #645 I Would Therefore Like To Posit That Computing's Central Challenge, Viz.
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I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz.
"how not to make a mess of it", has not been met.
-- Dijkstra (EWD 1304, 2000-11-19)
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Quote #648 It is time to unmask the computing community as a Secret Society of the Creation and Preservation of Artificial Complexity.
-- Dijkstra (EWD 1243)...
Quote #644 The price of reliability is the pursuit of utmost simplicity.
It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay....
Quote #651 I firmly believe that no project can result in a product better than the language in which the product has been discussed and carried out.
For anything non-trivial careful use of language is not a luxury, but a must....
Quote #652 A modern, competent programmer should not be puzzle-minded, he should not reveal in tricks, he should be humble and should avoid clever solutions like the plague.
-- Dijkstra (EWD 303)...
Quote #646 in the design of sophisticated digital system
elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a matter of life and death, being a major factor that decides between success and failure....
I would like to suggest that you not use speed, and here's why
it is going to mess up your heart, mess up your liver, your kidneys, rot out your mind....
Quote #24 As an appointed member of the three man committee on the long range future of COBOL
which committee was never disbanded, so I assume it still exists and which also never met, I have a few comments....
How many Roman Catholics -- does it take to screw in a light bulb?
They don't. It's been like that for 2000 years and there's no precedent for lightbulb changing....