# Edsger W. Dijkstra - The Humble Programmer (Highlights)  ## Highlights - The one opinion was that a really competent programmer should be puzzle-minded and very fond of clever tricks; the other opinion was that programming was nothing more than optimizing the efficiency of the computational process, in one direction or the other. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k9m95n4cvrh2hc311377jm01)) ^955764532 - The reason that I have paid the above attention to the hardware scene is because I have the feeling that one of the most important aspects of any computing tool is its influence on the thinking habits of those that try to use it, and because I have reasons to believe that that influence is many times stronger than is commonly assumed. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k9m9a4fqqa77hr8fbbn0v97j)) ^955764662