Dijkstra said things such as:
"The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague."
- Edsger W. Dijkstra
He also said the following:
"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability."
- Edsger W. Dijkstra
Mozart composition
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Dijkstra shared his thoughts about the differing programming ...