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Edsger W. Dijkstra on Graduation

1930–2002 Netherlands

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Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.

Dijkstra (1984)

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a quality that decides between success and failure.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edsger W. Dijkstra (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.