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  • About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

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    Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.130, Springer Science & Business Media
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Edsger Dijkstra

  • Born: May 11, 1930
  • Died: August 6, 2002
  • Occupation: Computer Scientist
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