Bob Matthews

Professor of Computer Science

Truman State University

“Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.”

• E. W. Dijkstra, ““Selected Writings on Computing: A Personal Perspective”, p.129

“Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.”

• E. W. Dijkstra, J.N. Buxton and B. Randell, eds, Software Engineering Techniques, April 1970, p. 16.

“Every culture has something that it worships.  In America, we have decided to worship ourselves.”

• Anonymous TSU Professor

“Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.”

• Dijkstra, E. W. (EWD 1243)