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1. "Asking whether computers can think is like asking if submarines can swim." ~ Edsger W. Dijkstra
2. "Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely as possible at the boundary of your abilities. Do this, because it is the only way of discovering how that boundary should be moved forward." ~ Edsger W. Dijkstra
3. "Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer." ~ Edsger W. Dijkstra
4. "Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code." ~ Edsger W. Dijkstra
5. "Your obligation is that of active participation. You should not act as knowledge-absorbing sponges, but as whetstones on which we can all sharpen our wits" ~ Edsger W. Dijkstra
6. "By claiming that they can contribute to software engineering, the soft scientists make themselves even more ridiculous. (Not less dangerous, alas!) In spite of its name, software engineering requires (cruelly) hard science for its support." ~ Edsger W. Dijkstra
7. "I think it wise, and only honest, to warn you that my goal is immodest. It is not my purpose to "transfer knowledge" to you that, subsequently, you can forget again. My purpose is no less than to effectuate in each of you a noticeable, irreversable change. I want you to see and absorb calculational arguments so effective that you will never be able to forget that exposure." ~ Edsger W. Dijkstra

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