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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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"Remember, each of us needs to be the best in our field."
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Personal Development
"The only way when your thirst for excellence is satisfied is when you take up the challenge to do a little more every day than you have already been doing every day!"
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"A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a servant, but a master of his work!"
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"Those who believe in quality produce quality goods."
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Personal Development
"Be excellent in your own terms."
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"Art needs no victory because it is already the victory of the meticulous mind!"
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Personal Development
"But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation."
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"There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority."
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"As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial."
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"We hire people who want to make the best things in the world."
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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
"Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons."
Experience
"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
"Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change."
Change
"The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges."
Suspicion
"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
"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
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."
Mind
"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
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