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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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"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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Personal Development
"Feelings are the language of the heart. Everything else is static noise."
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Personal Development
"I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell."
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"I was a master at keeping my feelings in."
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"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible."
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"My feelings about myself have been terrible."
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"I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling."
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"I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right."
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"I understand what it feels like not to like aspects of yourself. There have been times that I have felt really terrible about the way I look. I have the seed of that feeling."
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"Feelings have the divine attracting power. Feelings are the only link between you and everything around you."
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"I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection."
Excellence
"APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums."
Mistake
"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
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
Computer
"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."
Mathematicians
"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability."
Simplicity
"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
"The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague."
Humility
"The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings."
Quality
"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."
Feelings
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