"When we take the position that it is not only the programmer's responsibility to produce a correct program but also to demonstrate its correctness in a convincing manner, then the above remarks have a profound influence on the programmer's activity: the object he has to produce must be usefully structured."

-- Edsger Dijkstra

#Responsibility Quotes #Profound Quotes #Influence Quotes

“To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of lawâ€”a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.”

Source : "A Canticle for Leibowitz". Book by Walter M. Miller, Jr., 1960.
“For each final photograph, I'll have shot loads of film. I suppose people don't see all that. But when someone looks at a piece of work, they know something has gone into it, even if they can't lay their finger on what it is.”
“I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music”
“Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Night is the other half of life, and the better half.”
“Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention pure and simple.”
“But since you're asking me, I'll tell you my opinion: all cornbread is authentic, as long as it's good, hot, and made with love and fresh ingredients.”
“You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex”

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