"Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure."
― Edsger Dijkstra
Topic(s):
Success
― Edsger Dijkstra
More From Edsger Dijkstra
- "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
- "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
- "Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that’s what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it."
More In Success
- "I’ll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future."― LaToya Jackson
- "Our region’s economy was built upon their entrepreneurial spirit, and our economy still depends on the continued success of the enterprises they have worked so hard to create."― Doc Hastings
- "No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction."― Charles Kendall Adams