Edsger Dijkstra Quotes

The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life', expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.

Edsger Dijkstra

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeTrainingAnimalLearnNothing

I am so excited about the 'Goosebumps' movie; I am geeking out. I was a huge fan of the books.

Jillian Bell

I AmOutExcitedBooksFanMovie

Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.

Jodhi May

BelieveYouFameWayMoreAnything

With Benghazi, I don't see anyone saying, 'Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It's my fault.' I haven't heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that's just unbelievable to me.

Jocko Willink

ResponsibilityDecisionI AmMeLook

That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

Joan Baez

LoveOrganizedNonviolence

I'm not that kind of wife who would say, 'Learn this' or 'Learn that.' I'm not a nagging wife.

Melania Trump

WifeLearnSayKindWouldWho

I own guns because it's my right, it's my Second Amendment right, and no one in Washington gave me that right; it's a natural right confirmed by the very people that founded this nation.

Jeanine Pirro

PeopleMeWashingtonRightAmendment

I think Chris Burden is terrific. I really do.

Andy Warhol

ThinkBurdenI ThinkTerrificReally

I'd actually rather have a talk show in Australia than even America; I hope I do end up with a talk show.

Sophie Monk

HopeEndAmericaAustraliaTalkUp

I believe that music is a spiritual language. My everyday self is pretty mundane and boring, but when I'm making music it allows for me to communicate a kind of transcendence that I can't communicate otherwise.

Sufjan Stevens

MusicSpiritualMeBelieveLanguage

I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable.

Steven Soderbergh

WorkMyselfFeelWishDoingLook

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

Tony Robbins

OpportunityPreparationLuckMeeting

I think fundraising has a lot to do with political viability.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

ThinkPoliticalI ThinkFundraising

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