Edsger W. Dijkstra died on 6 August 2002 in Nuenen, The Netherlands.

Although I never met him in person, most of my convictions on how to produce software are solidly based on Dijkstra's ideas.

Some quotations of Dijkstra can by found on my Quotations page.

Over thousand (!) of Dijkstra's manuscripts can be found on http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/