Dijkstra had an unfortunate fondness for the epigram. Cumulatively the epigrams have had the effect of making it easier to remember him as the guy who said bad things about GOTOs, Basic, Fortran, and OS-360, rather than as a pioneer in algorithms, concurrency, and programming languages. Still, I suppose it is something to be able to say pithy things in one's second (or at least not first) language.