Edsger Dijkstra Quotes
The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.
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On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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The biggest things in life have been achieved by people who, at the start, we would have judged crazy. And yet if they had not had these crazy ideas the world would have been more stupid.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
