"Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure." ― Edsger Dijkstra Topic(s): Success 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." "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." More In Success "When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb."― J. Robert Oppenheimer "It’s pretty hard to make out what’s going to be a commercial success and what’s not."― Gavin Rossdale "Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success."― Denis Waitley