Edsger W. Dijkstra - Effective Quotes

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The problems of the real world are primarily those you are left with when you refuse to apply their effective solutions.

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If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with.

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Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but it is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.

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The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.

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The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don't master them, the software crisis will remain with us and will be considered an incurable disease. And you know what incurable diseases do: they invite the quacks and charlatans in, who in this case take the form of Software Engineering gurus.

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