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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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"If 'pratikraman' happens immediately [as the mistake happen], then it will bring one in the state of God (Bhagwan-pad)."
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Personal Development
"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
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"It's just a mistake, you understand you don't ya??... and Hello, father 33 days from your dead!"
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"Never mind the mistakes. One day they will become your most prized possessions."
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"I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent."
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"It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something."
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"It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes."
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"Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there."
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"It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved."
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"We all make mistakes, but one of our biggest mistakes is continually revisiting the past."
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"Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding."
Life
"Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning."
Learning
"Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons."
Experience
"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."
Immortality
"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability."
Simplicity
"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
"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
"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
"Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change."
Change
"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
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