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Edsger Dijkstra Quotes

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

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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Humility Clever Size Task Skull Own

If you can keep a character fresh and alive for, let's say, six months, working eight nights a week, then you can do anything. You have honed your technique and your skills to such a degree by that point that you are ready to take on all kinds of challenges.

Joe Morton

Character Challenges Week You Ready

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

Andre Gide

Experience Adventure People Succeed

Nature's God really descends from an ancient Greek tradition that was passed along to the early modern philosophers. And these were quite radical thinkers who were really challenging the ways of thinking of their time and the established religion.

Matthew Stewart

Nature God Time Religion Thinking

'The Graduate' should have won best picture over 'In the Heat of the Night.'

Andy Kindler

Best Night Picture Heat Over Should

Never leave home without a great gloss: Dior Addict Perfecto is one of my faves.

Amber Le Bon

Home Great Never Without Leave Dior

I don't want to marry anybody, but I certainly wouldn't want to marry a bad novelist.

Ruth Rendell

Bad Want Marry Anybody Certainly

God is never on the sidelines of His children's lives. He goes before them. He leads them, guides them, protects and saves them.

Monica Johnson

God Children Never Sidelines He His

I don't have long-standing regrets; they pass as I see how things are meant to be.

Dita Von Teese

Meant To Be See I See Regrets Things

I am attached to the west coast of Scotland - it's gorgeous to look at and challenging. You have to contend with the possibility of being blown away or rained on. And in the summer months you can be eaten alive by midges.

Clive Anderson

I Am You Look Summer Alive Gorgeous

If I were involved with the NBA, I wouldn't want a 19-year-old or a 20-year-old kid to bring into all the travel and all the problems that exist in the NBA. I would want a much more mature kid. I would want a kid that maybe I've been watching on another team, and now he's 21, 22 years old instead of 18 or 19, and I might trade for that kid.

Bobby Knight

Travel Team Problems Want Mature

It's good to be alive.

Artie Lange

Good Alive

It's hard to come into a new relationship with food unless you're engaged in an interactive way at an early age; it's hard to change your values.

Alice Waters

Change Age Relationship Food You