Simplicity and elegance are ...

Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.
Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.
 Edsger Dijkstra

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.
 Herb Kelleher
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
 Edsger Dijkstra
The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.
 Edsger Dijkstra
Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely as possible at the boundary of your abilities. Do this, because it is the only way of discovering how that boundary should be moved forward.
 Edsger Dijkstra
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
 Edsger Dijkstra
Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.
 Edsger Dijkstra