Edsger Dijkstra Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Simplicity, Design, Purpose

• So-called "natural language" is wonderful for the purposes it was created for, such as to be rude in, to tell jokes in, to cheat or to make love in (and Theorists of Literary Criticism can even be content-free in it), but it is hopelessly inadequate when we have to deal unambiguously with situations of great intricacy, situations which unavoidably arise in such activities as legislation, arbitration, mathematics or programming.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Rude, Making Love, Criticism

• It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Purpose, Computer, Program

  Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1976). “A Discipline of Programming”, Prentice Hall

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