Edsger Dijkstra |
June 26, 2015
If it is clumsy...
The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics. -- Edsger Dijkstra
June 19, 2015
Things people know that ain't so...
I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so. -- Edwin Armstrong
June 12, 2015
One of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics...
Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians. -- Edsger Dijkstra
June 5, 2015
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)