"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability."

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Source : "How do we tell truths that might hurt?" by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.virginia.edu. June 18, 1975.

Edsger Dijkstra

#Inspirational Quotes #Inspiring Quotes #Simplicity Quotes

“Be who you were born to be - it's what living things do.”
“I'd hate it if everyone in the world liked me, my music and what I wore. It'd make it boring, and I wouldn't have anything to work towards. It's not to everyone's taste, but I can only be me.”
“When I write music it's hard for me to keep it going repetitively.”
“Excuse the mess but we live here.”
“We develop our beautiful planet in such a way that we brush aside the species... we risk creating a wasteland, where our aspirations will ultimately wither and die”
“A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.”
“One can never be bored by powder skiing because it is a special gift of the relationship between earth and sky. It only comes in sufficient amounts in particular places, at certain times on this earth; it lasts only a limited amount of time before sun and wind changes it. People devote their whole lives to it for the pleasure of being so purely played by gravity and snow.”

Source : Dolores Lachapelle (1984). “Earth Wisdom”, Finn Hill Art
“Cronenberg's a lot of fun, and that a lot of people don't know watching his movies. He doesn't take himself seriously. He's still reinventing himself.”

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