Quotes by Learning I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes. Edna St. Vincent Millay learningmistakeadvice Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California. Edsger Dijkstra californialearningideas If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent." Edsger Dijkstra lineslearningwish pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn. Edna St. Vincent Millay learningmindheart Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer. Edsger Dijkstra masterytonguelearning Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where the explicit curriculum is confined to mathematical results; how to do mathematics is something the student must absorb by osmosis, so to speak. One reason for preferring symbol-manipulating, calculating arguments is that their design is much better teachable than the design of verbal/pictorial arguments. Large-scale introduction of courses on such calculational methodology, however, would encounter unsurmoutable political problems. Edsger Dijkstra osmosisdesignlearning The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities. Edsger Dijkstra learningprofoundthinking We are all shaped by the tools we use, in particular: the formalisms we use shape our thinking habits, for better or for worse, and that means that we have to be very careful in the choice of what we learn and teach, for unlearning is not really possible. Edsger Dijkstra learningmeanthinking Our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. For that reason we should do (as wise programmers aware of our limitations) our utmost to shorten the conceptual gap between the static program and the dynamic process, to make the correspondence between the program (spread out in text space) and the process (spread out in time) as trivial as possible. Edsger Dijkstra learningspacewise A most important, but also most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves in its use. If the tool is a programming language this influence is, whether we like it or not, an influence on our thinking habits.... A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits. Edsger Dijkstra learningprofoundthinking John von Neumann draws attention to what seemed to him a contrast. He remarked that for simple mechanisms, it is often easier to describe how they work than what they do, while for more complicated mechanisms, it is usually the other way around. Edsger Dijkstra learningsimpleattention Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. Edsger Dijkstra progresslearningthinking Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it. Edward de Bono learningmanagementknowledge The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it. Edward de Bono learningpurposeknowledge Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life. Edward R. Murrow learninglifefirsts Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. Edmund Burke castslearningscience The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer Edward T. Hall learningstrongteaching The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event. Edward Gibbon learningcriticismjudging Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. Edward Young traininglearningthinking Whatever our personal burden or cross to bear might be, we are here. We live! We Learn! The Grand Adventure is under way for us. Terrible as our trials might be, we are blessed and not abandoned by God. Elaine A. Cannon learningblessedadventure«2526272829303132333435»
