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Edsger Dijkstra Quotes

Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.

Edsger Dijkstra

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: dutch
Birth: May 11, 1930 - August 6, 2002

Topics

Bad California Programming Bad Idea

I have a very normal life. I go to the grocery store, I go to Target. I don't have an assistant, I don't have an entourage.

Life Target Go Normal Assistant

I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.

Know Why Never Old Years Ballet

Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of ordinary speech is usually corrected when it's transcribed into written prose.

Joyce Carol Oates

Curious Better Speech Roaming Been

And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed.

I Am Monday Week Back Go London

If you are stymied as a writer, if it's just not coming together, then take the pressure off and don't feel that you need to write 1,000 words today; just write one really good sentence.

Chris Bohjalian

Good Today Together Words Pressure

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Wedding March Race Clock Human Hour

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

Friends Go Things Gallery Artists

All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out, and reinvent yourself.

Life Change Shadow Yourself My Life

I believe I'm a better writer now than I was when I started. I'm grateful that I had good guidance because you don't make it in this business without good editors and a lot of support from your publishers.

Good Business Grateful Support You

Unfortunately, since its passage in 1973, the War Powers Resolution has been stripped of its original purpose and has instead served as a temporary, de facto authorization for the executive branch to use military force whenever it deems it necessary.

Purpose War Resolution Military Been

You don't need to be within the single market to trade; it's not an issue.

You Need Single Within Trade Market

There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.

People Free More Software Open

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