Nano-Dijkstras of Arrogance

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras. — Alan Kay —

Alan Kay smiles beside a quote joking that arrogance in computer science is measured in “nano-Dijkstras,” a pun on the name of computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra and the unit nanometer. It is used as a witty reaction to programmers or computer scientists being famously arrogant. EN: Alan Kay smiles beside a quote joking that arrogance in computer science is measured in “nano-Dijkstras,” a pun on the name of computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra and the unit nanometer. It is used as a witty reaction to programmers or computer scientists being famously arrogant.

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