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"Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change."
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"Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well."
"The change we want is within us and shall always be within us, the change we can have is in the steps we can take to realize the change we want. Take a step if you want a change!"
"One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others."
"Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it."
"Everything changes but change itself."
"Not much in the world ends up being the same as it started out, unless of course it had a very short life cycle."
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"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."
"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."
"Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure."
"Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding."
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
"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."
"Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons."
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