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Dutch computer scientist, 1930–2002. Author of over 1300 papers. Among his many contributions he is best known for Dijkstra's algorithm, a brilliant and simple shortest-path routing algorithm irksome to Computer Science undergrads.
"If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in."
"Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California."
"Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated."