Edsger Dijkstra Quotes About Giving

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  • It is not the task of the University to offer what society asks for, but to give what society needs.

    "Answers to questions from students of Software Engineering" by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.utexas.edu. November 28, 2000.
  • We must be very careful when we give advice to younger people; sometimes they follow it!

    "The Humble Programmer". Edsger Dijkstra's ACM Turing Award lecture, "Communications of the ACM", Volume 15, No. 10, www.cs.utexas.edu. October 1972.
  • ... as a slow-witted human being I have a very small head and I had better learn to live with it and to respect my limitations and give them full credit, rather than to try to ignore them, for the latter vain effort will be punished by failure.

  • I now have had my foggy crystal ball for quite a long time. Its predictions are invariably gloomy and usually correct, but I am quite used to that and they won't keep me from giving you a few suggestions, even if it is merely an exercise in futility whose only effect is to make you feel guilty.

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Edsger Dijkstra

  • Born: May 11, 1930
  • Died: August 6, 2002
  • Occupation: Computer Scientist