Quotes from Edsger Dijkstra

Beauty is our business.

Thanks to the greatly improved possibility of communication, we overrate its importance. Even stronger, we underrate the importance of isolation.

It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.