What Edsger W. Dijkstra thinks about innovation

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Dutch computer scientist (1930 to 2002); received the Turing Award in 1972; held the Schlumberger Centennial Chair in computer science at the University of Texas at Austin from 1984 to 1999; wrote a numbered series of manuscripts known as the EWDs.

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1. 10 Aug 1984

   Our readingIntroducing a complicated concept earns credit; showing that an established complicated concept is better avoided rarely does.

   Their wordsOne can get credit for some complicated concepts one has introduced, it is hard to get credit for the discovery how some established but complicated concepts had better be avoided

   ↗On the nature of Computing Science (EWD896)cs.utexas.edu 2nd of 2 in this piece