In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to … - Edsger Dijkstra

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Men of real talents in Arms have commonly approved themselves patrons of the liberal arts and friends to the poets, of their own as well as former times. In some instances by acting reciprocally, heroes have made poets, and poets heroes.

Edsger Dijkstra

In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.

Bugs, Good, Old, Programs, Sticks, Today

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

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

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Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

Hard Work, Discipline, Simplicity, Hard, Achieve

Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?

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Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely as possible at the boundary of your abilities. Do this, because it is the only way of discovering how that boundary should be moved forward.

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