The problems of the real world are primarily those you are left with when you refuse to apply their effective solutions.

— Edsger W. Dijkstra, On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988)

Source: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036.html

From his 1988 EWD note on teaching computing science.

Topics: learning