Computer Algorithm
Quotes & Thinkers in Computer Algorithm
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"The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity, of mastering multitude and avoiding its bastard chaos as effectively as possible."
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"Probably I am very naive, but I also think I prefer to remain so, at least for the time being and perhaps for the rest of my life."
— Edsger W. Dijkstra, b. 1930View →
"As economics is known as "The Miserable Science", software engineering should be known as "The Doomed Discipline", doomed because it cannot even approach its goal since its goal is self-contradictory. Software engineering has accepted as its charter "How to program if you cannot."
— Edsger W. Dijkstra, b. 1930View →
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!"
— Edsger W. Dijkstra, b. 1930View →
"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."
— Edsger W. Dijkstra, b. 1930View →
"Write a paper promising salvation, make it a 'structured' something or a 'virtual' something, or 'abstract', 'distributed' or 'higher-order' or 'applicative' and you can almost be certain of having started a new cult."
— Edsger W. Dijkstra, b. 1930View →