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"With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us."
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"When the unexpected meets with the unprepared, over there we find the greatest astonishments!"
"To the issues of friendship, love, business and war, "surprise" is the optimistic solution."
"My skin tingled, and suddenly, Deanna materialized before us. I jumped."
"The unexpected moment [is] always sweeter."
"The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy."
"With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us."
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"Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic."
"My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well."
"My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits."
"As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake."
"Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language."
"Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it."
"The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture."
"After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun."
"My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English."
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