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Edsger Dijkstra Quotes

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

Edsger Dijkstra

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Challenges World Source Something

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Love Fool Wise Way Minds Different

Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who's successful.

Daughter Someone Loser Go Want She

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Walls Thought You Heights Knowing

I got injured when I was a kid, and it prevented me from becoming a footballer.

Me Kid Got Becoming Footballer

We definitely weren't poor growing up, but we weren't rich.

Growing Up Rich Growing Poor Up

Nobody knew they needed a smart phone, an automobile, or even a cheeseburger from a drive through window.

Smart Window Drive Phone Nobody

I've never been paid by or colluded with any Russian to hack the D.N.C., to create search-engine optimization tools to cause Trump's positives up and Hillary's negatives up. I've never been to Prague.

Tools Create Never Up Paid Been

Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.

Day Writing Long Acting Go Actor

I think I subconsciously put myself in these situations where the girlfriend isn't pleased with me. I'm useless as a boyfriend. That's how I managed to write all these songs.

Myself Me Think Write Useless Where

I did go to Beijing, with a two-year assignment. I stayed four years. And those four years were the most formative four years in my life. What I learned was more than I would have learned in 10 years in America or Europe, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Life My Life America Go More Europe

I've been in grocery stores, and if they're playing my music, I'll yell, 'Hey! I wrote that!' I've been next to cars and have done that!

Music Done Next Playing Been Stores

I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very unglamorous.

Year House White Point Up Half

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