Edsger W. Dijkstra
Person on 2 sites
Dutch computer scientist (1930 to 2002); received the Turing Award in 1972; held the Schlumberger Centennial Chair in computer science at the University of…
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In computing, elegance is not a luxury: it decides between success and failure. (opens korrents.com)
“in computing, elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a quality that decides between success and failure”
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A design has to be kept simple for reliability and intellectual control, but nobody yet knows how to reach simplicity systematically. (opens korrents.com)
“we know that for the sake of reliability and intellectual control we have to keep the design simple and disentangled, and in individual cases we have been remarkably successful, but we do not know how to reach…”
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Simplicity takes hard work to achieve and education to appreciate, and complexity sells better. (opens korrents.com)
“Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.”
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In computing, elegance is not a luxury: it decides between success and failure. (opens korrents.com)