"Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change."

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"Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change."

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"The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform."

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"Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure."

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"The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges."

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"Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons."

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"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."

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"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!"

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"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."

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"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability."

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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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"Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon."

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