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• Quote #645 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)...
• 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 #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....
• 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 #649 Production speed is severely degraded if one works with half time people, who have other obligations as well.
  This is at least a factor four; probably it is worse....
• 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 #542 COBOL programs are an exercise in Artificial Inelegance.
• Quote #625 Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. -- Brian Kerniga
• The use of anthropomorphic terminology when dealing with computing systems is a symptom of professional immaturity.
  -- Edsger W. Dijkstra...