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Before focussing on today’s occasion, viz. my receiving the AFIPS Harry Goode Memorial Award, I would like to say a few things about awards and getting them in general. You see, it has been argued that the whole system of giving awards and bestowing distinctions is obsolete, and that therefore we should stop doing so.
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Dijkstra, E.W. (1982). Acceptance Speech for the AFIPS Harry Goode Memorial Award 1974. In: Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective. Texts and Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5695-3_8
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