On: Dijkstra: On the cruelty of really teaching comput...

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I know Dijkstra's genius and all, but his papers are just so unpleasant. First, I hate his verbose style and second, I hate his attitude.

"The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better."

Jesus, could he be any more smug?

[marcosdumay → 10098]

> Jesus, could he be any more smug?

Funny that I think that statement is extremely humble.

[scaramanga → marcosdumay]

Indeed, the very idea that your fly by the seat of your pants intuition, memory and senses cannot be trusted is the foundational presentiment that brought us science.

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Depends on how you read it. You could mimic structures from society or nature. The isolated human mind is quite a useless thing.