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Edsger Dijkstra Quotes

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

Edsger Dijkstra

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Impossible Language Try Pencil Axe

I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.

Great Think Religions Us Given Any

Globalization and technical change are the guarantee of our future prosperity. And reversing on that will not only make things worse, but it will make things worse for a very large number of people around the world who have benefitted - people in China and India who have been dragged out of the most awful poverty.

Change Future People World Poverty

How do you make something the same but different? That's the question I had to deal with in my approach to the cover painting for 'Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes.' I wanted it to have many similarities to 'Percy Jackson's Greek Gods,' but I knew they couldn't be too similar.

Painting You Question Same Heroes

This is how memories are made... by going with the flow.

Memories Flow Going Made How

You learn that there's no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It's just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don't let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

Style Trust Parenting Learn You Way

Nikki lives around the corner from me and I see him all the time. We talk a lot, and of course we're still friends. That was our baby, Motley Crue, we put that band together.

Time Together Me Baby Friends Talk

If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.

Person Shut Up Up Shut Communicate

I want to see the Doncaster Rovers supporters get the club the success it deserves.

Louis Tomlinson

Success Want Club See Get Deserves

I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.

Light Darkness People Control Bright

I've always believed that no officer's life, regardless of rank, is of such great value to his country that he should seek safety in the rear... Officers should be forward with their men at the point of impact.

Life Great Men Value Safety Forward

Whatever is original in my writing comes from my musical apprenticeship. I look for rhythm in words. I imagine words as if they were musical chords. Often I'll write something, read it, and find it musically unsatisfactory. There is a musical imperative in my choice of words.

Words Writing Look Find Choice

I have the full confidence of the coach, and that's extremely important to me.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

Confidence Me Important Coach Full

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