#ex

Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#effective #extremely #formal #joys #life

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#competitive #concept #days #excellence #explicitly

Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#bad idea #california #could #exceptionally #idea

All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#ended #extravagant #out #plain #pure

There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem? ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#cause #condoms #crisis #doctors #having

Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time. ↗

— Paul Twitchell

#else #emanate #expression #finding #itself

I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities. ↗

— Larry Dixon

#different #different personalities #distractions #extremely #factor

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend. ↗

— Diogenes

#expression #favorite #man #most #spend

I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool. ↗

— Celine Dion

#cool #extremely #girl #i #pretty

People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far. ↗

— Marcel Dionne

#ask #best #career #cup #experience