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Clarification

Someone please clarify the sentence "In a 2001 interview, he stated a desire for "elegance," whereby the correct approach would be to process thoughts mentally, rather than attempt to render them until they are complete.". It is unclear to me what is meant by that statement.

Isn't it rather self-explanatory? The elegance Dijkstra stood for was a(n applied) variant of mathematical elegance. He rejected the anglo-saxon concept of iterative learning (= repeat until success has been reached). Before you started doing something he wanted you to know where you were planning to go and how you were going to do so. You shouldn't begin writing down a sentence before you knew exactly how it was going to end,...You could suspect that the 'backspace' and 'delete' key on a keyboard were abominations to him, because they encouraged slopiness. So the main idea is that you should always structure your thought mentally before outputting anything into the physical world.

Missing source

"Looking closely at himself he realized that if he wrote about things they would appreciate at the MC in Amsterdam his colleagues in Eindhoven would not understand; if he wrote about things they would like in Eindhoven, his former colleagues in Amsterdam would look down on him." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.171.57.121 (talk) 03:09, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

the following source which has many citations has a broken link: 

Faulkner, Larry R.; Durbin, John R. (19 August 2013). "In Memoriam: Edsger Wybe Dijkstra". The University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 20 August 2015.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Photobro (talk • contribs) 01:32, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Over-quotation

@Beyond My Ken: Please don't remove cleanup templates without addressing the issues. This template does not require talk page discussion unlike {{POV}} nor is that stated anywhere in the template documentation. Quite frankly it's very clear how the template applies and it helpfully links you to an essay with further explanation. Lastly, Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information, especially not whole sections devoted to quotes, which is what Wikiquote is for. Opencooper (talk) 00:39, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You are incorrect. All cleanup templates require talk page discussion, or they remain the opinion of a single editor. If you think there are too many quotes, get a consensus to clean them out, but don't disfigure the page with a tag that may or may not be warranted. BMK (talk) 01:25, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Please do point me to the policy where it says that all cleanup templates require talk page discussion first. I've also explained now how it's applicable so how about you start to actually discuss that instead of worrying about the "disfiguration" of a page over the improvement of the article itself? Opencooper (talk) 02:58, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Image flipped

The photo seems to be flipped/reflected in order that the person look to the middle of the page. According to Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Images#Editing_images and Wikipedia:Image_dos_and_don'ts, this is not intended in Wikipedia. --Maformatiker (talk) 12:01, 7 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, you're right. I've reverted to the non-flipped version. Thanks for bringing it up. Opencooper (talk) 12:07, 7 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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