Edsger Dijkstra Quotes

If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.

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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For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

Joe Biden

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Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

John Lennon

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Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.

Robert Smithson

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You tell me what you listen to, and I'll tell you who you are.

Jean-Marc Vallee

MeYouListenTellWho

Guerrilla leaders win wars by being paranoid and ruthless. Once they take power, they are expected to abandon those qualities and embrace opposite ones: tolerance, compromise and humility. Almost none manages to do so.

Stephen Kinzer

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As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.

Stockwell Day

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I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes.

Mike Ditka

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As a fiction writer, all I need is a laptop, and when I'm not teaching, I travel as much as I can, applying for every research grant and overseas gig I hear of, then trying to extend those trips as far as the stipends will go. I love to travel alone.

Molly Antopol

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Purchasing and downloading a book on to your e-reader won't necessarily protect it from disappearing.

Jonathan Zittrain

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The writing became a hobby in the background: it took a back seat to parenthood and being a person and being a human being.

Dolores O'Riordan

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'Tulip Fever' did change my life. It did that thing that sometimes happens when a book takes off - it opened doors on to whole other worlds.

Deborah Moggach

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The child asks, 'Why don't I have this happiness thing you're telling me about?'

Shel Silverstein

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