Dijkstra Basic Quotes

#1. I do not know what put the idea of China into his head, but at first he must have thrust it aside with violent repulsion; and perhaps the very violence of his repulsion impressed the idea on him, for he found it haunting him.

W. Somerset Maugham

#2. It is necessary that the weakness of the powerless is transformed into a force capable of announcing justice. For this to happen, a total denouncement of fatalism is necessary. We are transformative beings and not beings for accommodation.

Paulo Freire

#3. The Best moment in the TV, is when it come the break when the film stops and comes the advertises from which the program survives. This moment is the best..., WHY?
Because you can read a book, by turning of the sound of your TV!

Deyth Banger

#4. Well, we'll know better next time.

Tom Stoppard

#5. People looking into Barack Obama's campaign contributions say that Obama may have received $3.3 million from abroad. Yeah. It turns out that broad is Oprah Winfrey.

Conan O'Brien

#6. 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.

Edsger Dijkstra

#7. In her also I found what I liked best - an unfailing, kindly welcome without a hint of sentimentality, unruffled good sense, the unobtrusive talent for making all things at all times as cheerful and comfortable as circumstances allowed.

C.S. Lewis

#8. Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

Wendell Pierce

#9. 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.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

#10. I have stitched life into me like a rare organ

Sylvia Plath

#11. I tried to make each half sandwich last for three full bites, though I could easily have popped them into my mouth whole.

Ellen Emerson White

#12. I don't worry about new young bands. The bounty of life is infinite and so is music and so are opportunities.

Anthony Kiedis

#13. Ignorant have always the tendency to see the donkey as the noble horse, to see the pig as the lion! Ignore the judgements of the ignorant, because ignorant makes the ant elephant; he declares the stupid as the intelligent; he carries the silly on his shoulders!

Mehmet Murat Ildan