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"The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market."
"I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system."
"Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news."
"The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it."
"A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage."
"Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us."
Explore more quotes by Edsger Dijkstra
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."
"Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure."
"The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges."
"Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons."
"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."
"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."
"The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague."
"Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding."
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