Edsger Dijkstra Quotes

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.
The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
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Edsger Dijkstra
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Scientist
BirthDate
11 May, 1930
DeathDate
06 August, 2002
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Netherlands
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