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"Be simple to fill life with abundance."
"A cup of tea is all I need to keep working."
"Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment."
"Let it be simple, let it be with love."
"Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars!"
"Adorn yourself with modest dressing."
"In a day a man needs only his daily bread."
"To be simple, be kind. To be free, be non-judgmental. To be happy, be kind and loving."
"Urgency fills our life with stress and anxiety. but slowness, simplicity, and love fill our life with beauty and happiness."
"If you live in a dirty big city, it means that you surely need a pastoral life to make yourself clean!"
Explore more quotes by Edsger Dijkstra
"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."
"Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure."
"The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings."
"Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection."
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