“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 W. Dijkstra
― Edsger W. Dijkstra
“It is not only the violin that shapes the violinist, we are all shaped by the tools we train ourselves to use, and in this respect programming languages have a devious influence: they shape our thinking habits.”
― Edsger W. Dijkstra
― Edsger W. Dijkstra
“Your obligation is that of active participation. You should not act as knowledge-absorbing sponges, but as whetstones on which we can all sharpen our wits”
― Edsger W. Dijkstra
― Edsger W. Dijkstra
“In a society in which the educational system is used as an instrument for the establishment of a homogenized culture, in which the cream is prevented from rising to the top, the education of competent programmers could be politically impalatable.”
― Edsger W. Dijkstra, EWD 340: The Humble Programmer
― Edsger W. Dijkstra, EWD 340: The Humble Programmer
别的书摘与政治不正确玩梗
恶性循环是现代人拿来对抗生命中难以消解的不安全感和焦虑感的办法。
它的解决方法是制造出更多的欲望,而这将会导致不可逆的感官的钝化以及大脑的疲累。
为了保持这一“标准”,我们大多数人愿意忍受我们的生活,它在很大程度上是由两件事情构成的:从事枯燥无味的工作以赚取收入,以及经由间歇的狂热而昂贵的物质享受来寻求沉闷中的解脱。这些间歇被认为是真正的生活,是必要的工作之恶所达成的真正目的。我们猜想,做这种事情的理由是可以养活一家人继续做同样的事情,并由此养活自己的后代……而且这样无限地继续下去。