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"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."
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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."
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