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Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.


Edsger Dijkstra

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EDSGER DIJKSTRA Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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EDSGER DIJKSTRA There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approache...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I pr...
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EDSGER DIJKSTRA Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility,...
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EDSGER DIJKSTRA If in physics there's something you don't understand, you can always hide behind the uncharted depth...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would r...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead...
JOHN P. KOTTER Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius
WILLIAM BLAKE Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
WILLIAM BLAKE Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate ...
WILLIAM POLLARD Mathematicians, who are only mathematicians, have exact minds, provided all things are explained to ...
BLAISE PASCAL Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians ...
BRIAN GREENE Mathematicians are like Frenchman: whatever you say to them they translate Into their own language, ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language a...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language a...
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EDSGER W. DIJKSTRA The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a s...
EDSGER W. DIJKSTRA Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine proble...
EDSGER W. DIJKSTRA Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it....
EDSGER W. DIJKSTRA Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
EDSGER W. DIJKSTRA The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offens...
EDSGER W. DIJKSTRA Most of the managers are lifetime .220 hitters. For years pitchers have been getting these managers ...
BILL LEE Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.
JAMES CASH PENNEY Mathematicians are born, not made.
HENRI POINCARE All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.
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ARUN DANIEL When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before t...
ANDY WARHOL The people are tired and they want change.
AARON DIXON Most of the managers are lifetime .220 hitters. For years pitchers have been getting these managers ...
BILL LEE Practice without improvement is meaningless.
CHUCK KNOX Drivers are more important than softwares, still we have more software CDs - just like workers are m...
VIJAYRAJ BHATT There are only two kinds of managers. Winning managers and ex-managers.
GIL HODGES We want change with or without the embargo. In general, the Cuban government treats (dissidents) lik...
ELIZARDO SANCHEZ Improvement only happens when the cost of our behaviour exceeds the price of change.
JIM GENOVESE Cats don't like change without their consent.
ROGER CARAS You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only...
GARY HAMEL Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?
HENRI POINCARE The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.
BILL GAEDE Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management.
BARRY RITHOLTZ And what do they want!?
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ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER My style is to keep folks in place who are good managers and want to win.
TOM HICKS Cats don't like change without their consent.
ROGER CARAS When they hire at the entry level, they're only looking at technical skills. But they want them to b...
KATE KAISER We mathematicians understand that without the education of children, the economy cannot grow, and th...
V.M.ROBINSON Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change.
JERRY FRANKHAUSER The people want a change. I'm really positive that they are going to be happy with this change.
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JOHANN MOST People are really hungry for change, and we need to give them something to hang that change on. The ...
MARK MCKINNON Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.
ANDREW WILES I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.
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JIM EVANS If you want things to stay as they are, things will have to change
GIUSEPPE TOMASI DI LAMPEDUSA The path to self improvement is to recognise your part in the situation you want to avoid, determine...
JIM GENOVESE Not every change is an improvement but every improvement is a change; you can't do anything BETTER u...
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DAVID GRIFFITH Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
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JACOB SULLUM Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.
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ADAM COHEN They are showing early signs of reaction, signs of slow improvement.
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JEFFREY PAUL The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
JACK WELCH True leaders are a threat to average leaders and managers because they rattle their cages!
PATRICK DRIESSEN All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
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EDSGER W. DIJKSTRA The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offens...
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