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Edsger W Dijkstra : Thank goodness we don't have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well. #Goodness

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Edsger W Dijkstra quote-Thank goodness we don't have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well. ...

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Source Unknown: "We are so often caught up in our destination that we forget to appreciate the journey, especially the goodness of the people we meet on the way. Appreciation is a wonderful feeling, don't overlook it." #Goodness

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Roger Ebert: "I have discovered a goodness and decency in people as exhibited in all the letters, e-mails, flowers, gifts and prayers that have been directed my way. I am overwhelmed and humbled. I offer you my most sincere thanks and my deep and abiding gratitude. If I ever write my memoirs, I have some spellbinding material. How does the Joni Mitchell song go? "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone"? One thing I've discovered is that I love my job more than I thought I did, and I love my wife even more!" #Goodness

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William Hazlitt: "We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects." #Goodness

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Napoleon Bonaparte: "There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous." #Goodness

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George W Bush: "It is a ridiculous notion to assert that because the United States is on the offense, more people want to hurt us. We are on the offense because people do want to hurt us." #Goodness

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Sophocles : "Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away." #Goodness

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Anita Loos: "There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants -- more than anything else -- to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are -- and have always been." #Goodness

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Archibald Rutledge: "One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others." #Goodness

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Nicolas Cage: "I don't like it when people on the street say smile or cheer up. It's a real cheap line. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling real grateful for everything. It's a solid time in my life. When people say I look sad, they're wrong." #Goodness

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Arthur Schopenhauer: "Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right." #Goodness

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Edsger W Dijkstra: "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." #Questions

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Edsger W Dijkstra: "FORTRAN's tragic fate has been its wide acceptance, mentally chaining thousands and thousands of programmers to our past mistakes." #Computers

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Edsger W Dijkstra: "I think of the company advertising "Thought Processors" or the college pretending that learning BASIC suffices or at least helps, whereas the teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery." #Advertising

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Edsger W Dijkstra: "Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs" #Absence

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Edsger W Dijkstra: "Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!" #Absence

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Edsger W Dijkstra: "The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague." #Computers

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Edsger W Dijkstra: "Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a quality that decides between success and failure." #Success

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Edsger W Dijkstra: "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?" #Simplicity

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Edsger W Dijkstra: "Write a paper promising salvation, make it a 'structured' something or a 'virtual' something, or 'abstract', 'distributed' or 'higher-order' or 'applicative' and you can almost be certain of having started a new cult." #Writers and Writing

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Edsger W Dijkstra: "For me, the first challenge for computing science is to discover how to maintain order in a finite, but very large, discrete universe that is intricately intertwined. And a second, but not less important challenge is how to mould what you have achieved in solving the first problem, into a teachable discipline: it does not suffice to hone your own intellect (that will join you in your grave), you must teach others how to hone theirs. The more you concentrate on these two challenges, the clearer you will see that they are only two sides of the same coin: teaching yourself is discovering what is teachable." #Feelings

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