Memorable Quotes and quotations from Professor Edsger Dijkstra

Professor Edsger Dijkstra


Professor Edsger Dijkstra -
- Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Professor Edsger Dijkstra -
- PL
1, "the fatal disease", belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.

Professor Edsger Dijkstra -
- It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

Professor Edsger Dijkstra - at the ACN South Central Regional Conference, Austin, Texas, 16 to 18 Novemver 1984
- The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker, and Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim.