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Edsger Dijkstra

"The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges."

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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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"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."
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"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."
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