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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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"We are all the sum of a million moments in our lives."
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"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."
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"I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements."
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"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."
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"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience."
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"Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?"
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"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
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"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."
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"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."
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"I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it."
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"Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change."
Change
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."
Mind
"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
"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
Computer
"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
"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
"The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics."
Elegance
"Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons."
Experience
"Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning."
Learning
"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."
Mathematicians
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