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"The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges."
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"Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium."

"My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."

"I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place."

"I am looked upon with suspicion. I am on the "other side.""

"As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure."

"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."
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