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"Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning."
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"There is no substitute for education."

"Analyze and correct your past mistakes before they paralyze your future! An undiscovered error will always crave for repetition. Kick out errors, enjoy a bright future!"

"Through self-development, you can continuously fortify yourself for the next level of increase."
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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."

"The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing."

"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."

"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."

"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."

"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."

"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."

"The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings."
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