The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world'…

Edsger Dijkstra
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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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 … ▶
The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities. ✨ Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspec … ▶
Thanks to the greatly improved possibility of communication, we overrate its importance. Even stronger, we underrate the importance of isolation.
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I don't need to waste my time with a computer just because I am a computer scientist. ✨ Answers to questions from students of Software Engineering. www.cs.utexas.edu. November 28, 2000.

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

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