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"Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors."
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"My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that."
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"You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today."
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"You can't plan for feelings. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it'll be okay anyway."
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"I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward."
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"What makes these creatures so awful is the feeling that they can use us in ways too horrible to imagine-and yet, we DO imagine them, which makes it worse than seeing it."
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"We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings."
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"It's never too late to go out and get that feeling back."
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"I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings."
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"Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did."
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"Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous."
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"Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding."
Life
"Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning."
Learning
"Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons."
Experience
"If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me."
Immortality
"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability."
Simplicity
"Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it."
Education
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
Hope
"Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change."
Change
"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."
Mathematicians
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!"
Bugs
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