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One of the most influential figures of computing science’s founding generation, Edsger Dijkstra at the blackboard during a conference at ETH Zurich in 1994. In Dijkstra’s own words, “A picture may be worth a thousand words, a formula is worth a thousand pictures.”¹

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Footnotes

1. Dijkstra, E.W. (July 1996), A first exploration of effective reasoning [EWD896]. (E.W. Dijkstra Archive, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin) ↩