Edsger Dijkstra Quotes about Simplicity

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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

Edsger Dijkstra

Inspirational, Inspiring, Simplicity

"How do we tell truths that might hurt?" by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.virginia.edu. June 18, 1975.

Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

Edsger Dijkstra

Hard Work, Discipline, Simplicity

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

Edsger Dijkstra

Simplicity, Design, Purpose

Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.

Edsger Dijkstra

Hard Work, Appreciate, Simplicity

"On the nature of Computing Science" by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.utexas.edu. August 10, 1984.

How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?

Edsger Dijkstra

Luxury, People, Simplicity

Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.347, Springer Science & Business Media