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“I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me.”
― Edsger W. Dijkstra

“The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.”
― Edsger W. Dijkstra

“The purpose of abstracting is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.”
― Edsger W. Dijkstra

“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.”
― Edsger Dijkstra

“Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.”
― Linus Torvalds

“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”
― Linus Torvalds

“Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.”
― Linus Torvalds

“Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion ?”
― Oliver Heaviside